To save the planet, the world needs to tackle the crises of climate change and species loss together, taking measures that fix both and not just one, United Nations scientists said.
A joint report Thursday by separate UN scientific bodies that look at climate change and biodiversity loss found there are ways to simultaneously attack the two global problems, but some fixes to warming could accelerate extinctions of plants and animals.
Biofuels, carbon capture and storage could pose risk to species
For example, measures such as expansion of bioenergy crops like corn, or efforts to pull carbon dioxide from the air and
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