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We live in difficult times. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report warns of a 1.5°C rise in global warming between 2030 and 2052, putting human and natural systems at high climate risk. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), in its 2019 Global Assessment Report, states that close to a million animal and plant species are under threat of extinction.
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