Why don't we care more about preserving biodiversity?

摘要

With far less visible fanfare than last year's COP26 event in Glasgow, this month sees the launch of COP15 - the UN biodiversity conference taking place in Kunming, China. The event is a descendant of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which began in the 1990s and brought global focus to the worsening state of planetary biodiversity. As COP15 coincides with the start of spring (25 April to 8 May), it feels timely to ask what progress has been made over the past 30 years against the CBD's warnings, and whether the design and construction industry is doing enough generally to address the problem of biodiversity erosion.