Biodiversity loss is 'worse than terrorism'

Climate change and biodiversity loss pose a "more fundamental threat" to the UK than terrorism or Vladimir Putin, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said in his first major policy speech, reported the Independent newspaper. In speech at London's Kew Gardens, Lammy said climate change and biodiversity loss "may not be as pressing as a terrorist or an imperialist autocrat" but are "more fundamental... systemic... pervasive... and accelerating towards us", the Independent said. Financial Times said Lammy had pledged to make climate change and biodiversity loss "central to everything the Foreign Office does" and to create "special representatives" in each area. The Guardian he noted that it would be the first time the UK had appointed a special envoy for nature. (More on carbonbrief.org)