UN conference on biodiversity: the historic agreement, a colossal challenge

Concluding a historic agreement in two weeks, the “last chance” to save species and natural environments from irreversible destruction, is the challenge facing the UN conference on biodiversity that opens Wednesday in Montreal.
To adopt a new 10-year global framework to safeguard nature and its essential resources for humanity, delegates from more than 190 countries are meeting until 19 December. Indeed, while pollution and climate change are accelerating the degradation of the oceans, one million species are threatened with extinction, a third of the land is seriously degraded and fertile soils are disappearing.

Victory of the Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock: Joe Biden confirms his majority in the US Senate

With the victory of the Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock in an election in Georgia, Joe Biden's party confirmed its majority in the US Senate on Tuesday. The American president has emerged strengthened from this electoral sequence while he is predicted to face a severe defeat in the mid-term elections. Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, his party's candidate, was opposed to Donald Trump's protege, the Republican Herschel Walker, for the final act of these “midterms.”

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