News Headline
What does the Paris agreement mean for the world's other 8 million species?
Source
Guardian (UK)
Publication Date
2016-01-05
The word “biodiversity” is employed once in the Paris agreement’s 32 pages. “Forests” appears a few times, but “oceans”, like biodiversity, scores just a single appearance. There is no mention of extinction. Wildlife, coral reefs, birds, frogs, orchids, polar bears and pikas never show up anywhere in the document.