'Orgy of destruction': UN head opens Cop15 with stark warning of declining biodiversity - video

'Multinational corporations are filling their bank accounts while emptying our world of its natural gifts,' says the UN secretary general António Guterres, as he opens the Cop15 biodiversity conference. 'This conference is our chance to end this orgy of destruction.'  Governments will begin formal negotiations for this decade's UN biodiversity targets at the conference. At the Montreal opening ceremony, the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, urged countries to agree on a target to conserve 30% of Earth for nature in the final agreementThe five biggest threats to our natural world ? and how we can stop themCanada leads calls to reverse nature loss Continue reading...