{"id":30715,"date":"2024-09-26T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=30715"},"modified":"2024-09-26T10:58:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T08:58:16","slug":"biodiversity-loss-is-worse-than-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/09\/26\/biodiversity-loss-is-worse-than-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity loss is &#039;worse than terrorism&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change and biodiversity loss pose a &quot;more fundamental threat&quot; to the UK than terrorism or Vladimir Putin, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said in his first major policy speech, reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/david-lammy-climate-change-terrorism-putin-urgent-b2614258.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">the Independent newspaper.<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/foreign-secretarys-foreign-policy-speech-on-the-climate-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In speech<\/a>\u00a0at London&#039;s Kew Gardens, Lammy said climate change and biodiversity loss &quot;may not be as pressing as a terrorist or an imperialist autocrat&quot; but are &quot;more fundamental... systemic... pervasive... and accelerating towards us&quot;, the Independent said. Financial<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ce6c2cd0-6fd1-4eb9-a17a-686c6e7062ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Times<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span>said Lammy had pledged to make climate change and biodiversity loss &quot;central to everything the Foreign Office does&quot; and to create &quot;special representatives&quot; in each area. The\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/sep\/16\/david-lammy-appoint-uk-first-special-envoy-nature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guardian<\/a><\/span> he noted that it would be the first time the UK had appointed a special envoy for nature. <em>(More on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/cropped-25-september-2024-biodiversity-loss-worse-than-terrorism-human-polar-bear-conflict-australias-zombie-forestry\/?utm_source=cbnewsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=2024-09-26&amp;utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+26+09+2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">carbonbrief.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change and biodiversity loss pose a \u201cmore fundamental threat\u201d to the UK than terrorism or Vladimir Putin, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said in his first major political speech, the Independent reported. Speaking at London\u2019s Kew Gardens, Lammy said climate change and biodiversity loss \u201cmay not be as urgent as a terrorist or an imperialist autocrat\u201d but are [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biodiverzita"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}