While many of us were preparing for our Christmas holidays, the UN quietly announced the creation of a new biodiversity panel. It’s hard to know exactly what this means, but hopefully we will see some real science applied to this area, with some real influence on lawmakers around the world.
Normally I would have read about this first on the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog, but like many they’re on holiday now. As a parting gift to us all, they left a link to a Futurama episode on biodiversity. Be sure to have a look, and make sure to watch the whole episode, not just the teaser.
“Biodiversity Panel”
U.N. is getting too enterprising with their activities.
With that said, I have never been a big fan of the U.N. or its establishments and extensions.
Hi Todd,
The UN panel on climate change ended up being headed by someone pretty flamboyant who wasn’t afraid to speak his mind. If we end up with someone on the biodiversity panel who’s willing to be something other than a sheep following the instructions of others, we might actually get some useful policies in place.
That said, I guess I’m not very optimistic either…