Nature’s ‘super year’ is on hold… again
The year 2020 was supposed to be a “super year for nature”, “a major opportunity to bring nature back from the brink”. But then the coronavirus pandemic set in and long-held plans to tackle the environmental crisis were postponed for a year.
It was to begin at the Swiss ski resort of Davos in January 2020, where the financial elite would underscore the risks of global heating and biodiversity loss to human civilisation. An intense spring and summer of negotiations would follow, ahead of an autumn of never-seen-before ambition. First, at Cop15 in Kunming, China, in October, world leaders would strike a deal to reverse the destruction of ecosystems by reaching a Paris-style agreement for nature. Then they would head to
