{"id":7552,"date":"2020-01-17T08:54:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:48","slug":"perfect-storm-when-climate-change-stokes-wildfires-marine-heatwaves-and-biodiversity-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/17\/perfect-storm-when-climate-change-stokes-wildfires-marine-heatwaves-and-biodiversity-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Storm: When Climate Change Stokes Wildfires, Marine Heatwaves And Biodiversity Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By\nUN Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2020 is a crunch year for decision makers tackling the\nbiodiversity and climate change emergencies and for humanity as a whole to\nstart paying attention to the breakdown of our planetary systems. The year will\nhost two major events, known as \u201cconferences of parties,\u201d on biodiversity and\nclimate. The biodiversity conference will agree a new set of goals for nature\nfor the next decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A host of recent scientific reports, and principally\nthe 2019 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems\nreport, are saying that species are dying out at unprecedented rates and that\ndespite all efforts global temperatures are rising. And, as 2020 dawned, major\nwildfires in places like Australia have been in the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile wildfires can be part of some ecosystems,\nhuman-induced climate change is making them more frequent, larger and more\nwidespread. The increase of forest fires has a dual impact on biodiversity and\nclimate,\u201d says Pascal Peduzzi, Director of the United Nations Environment\nProgramme (UNEP)-Global Resource Information Database in Geneva and programme\nmanager of the UNEP World Environment Situation Room. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/perfect-storm-when-climate-change-stokes-wildfires-marine-heatwaves-and\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment 2020 is a crunch year for decision makers tackling the biodiversity and climate change emergencies and for humanity as a whole to start paying attention to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}