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id="section-sidebar-content"> <ul class="section-sidebar__list flow-2xs"><li><a href="/grantham/events/imperial-at-un-biodiversity-conference-cop15/delegation/">Delegation</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </aside> <div class="col lg-8 sm-12" role="main" id="primary-content">  <div class="module flow-m">  <div class="highlight">  <div class="pullquote flow-xs wysiwyg primary"> <h2 class"fake-h3">Delegation</h2> <p>View our <a href="/grantham/events/imperial-at-un-biodiversity-conference-cop15/delegation/">COP15 delegation</a> and media contacts</p> </div>  </div> <div class="row wysiwyg"> <p>Current rates of biodiversity loss are unprecedented in human history and threaten the delivery of key ecosystem services that underpin human health such as clean water and access to nature.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.cbd.int/" target="_blank">15th United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP15)</a>, hosted in Montreal, Canada, in December 2022, saw countries come together to agree a new set of goals for nature over the next decade through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) post-2020 framework process.</p> <p>Our Imperial academic community attended COP15 to share our collective expertise and understand more about the ways in which science can influence policy. <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/242395/what-does-cop15-really-mean-nature/" target="_blank">Read their reflections on the outcome of the conference here</a>.</p> </div> <div class="row video-text"> <div class="col lg-6"> <div class="video-player" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNl6fB7wBSA" tabindex="0"> <figure class="caption"> <div class="video-placeholder custom"> <img src="https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/960x540/prod01/channel_3/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/biodiversity---3X2.jpg"srcset="https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/960x540/prod01/channel_3/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/biodiversity---3X2.jpg 1x,https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/1920x1080/filters:upscale()/prod01/channel_3/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/biodiversity---3X2.jpg 2x,https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/3840x2160/filters:upscale()/prod01/channel_3/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/biodiversity---3X2.jpg 4x,"alt="Screengrab of animation showing a rising sun framing a tree on a hill, surrounded by deforested trees"> <a href="#" class="play-button">Play video</a> </div> <figcaption>Animation depicting the relationship between biodiversity loss and climate change, as described in the text below.</figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> <div class="col lg-6"> <div class="content lg-10 md-12 wysiwyg"> <h3 class="title fake-h2 sr-only">How to solve the climate and biodiversity crisis</h3> <h3>How can the world solve the climate and biodiversity crises?</h3> <p>Biodiversity loss and climate change are two of the biggest and most urgent threats facing human society worldwide. Human activities drive both crises, and the crises also fuel one another. Many solutions benefitting biodiversity can also significantly contribute to climate action, and vice versa. This animation shows how policymakers can implement solutions that deliver benefits for climate and nature simultaneously.</p> </div> </div></div>  <div class="row video-playlist keyline"> <div class="heading"> <h3 class="title not-sr-only">Imperial voices on nature</h3> </div> <div class="col lg-7 sm-12"> <div class="now-playing">   <div class="video-player" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pltB9bD_9I"> <div class="caption"> <div class="video-placeholder custom"> <img src="https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/prod01/channel_3/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/Galina-Jonsson.jpg" alt="Galina Jönsson"> <a href="#" class="play-button">Play video</a> </div> <h4 class="fake-h3">Galina Jönsson, Research Postgraduate</h4> <div class="longdesc"> <p>The biodiversity crisis is as urgent as the climate crisis – and intimately interconnected, says Galina Jönsson, an ecologist and Research Postgraduate at Imperial and the Natural History Museum.</p> </div> </div> </div>   </div> </div> <div class="col lg-5 sm-12 hatch"> <div class="playlist">   <div class="video-playlist-item" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pltB9bD_9I" tabindex="0"> <div class="col lg-4 md-0 sm-12"> <div class="video-placeholder custom"> <img src="https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/prod01/channel_3/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/Galina-Jonsson.jpg" alt="Galina Jönsson"> </div> </div> <div class="col lg-8 md-12"> <h4>Galina Jönsson, Research Postgraduate</h4> <p>talking head interview with Galina Jönsson about biodiversity loss</p> <div class="longdesc"> <p>The biodiversity crisis is as urgent as the climate crisis – and intimately interconnected, says Galina Jönsson, an ecologist and Research Postgraduate at Imperial and the Natural History Museum.</p> </div> </div> </div>   <div class="video-playlist-item" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6HU5eibhEU" tabindex="0"> <div class="col lg-4 md-0 sm-12"> <div class="video-placeholder custom"> <img src="https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/prod01/channel_3/media/images/landscape-3000X2000/Wouter-Buytaert.jpg" alt="Professor Wouter Buytaert"> </div> </div> <div class="col lg-8 md-12"> <h4>Wouter Buytaert, Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources</h4> <p>Professor Wouter Buytaert discusses his research on water supply.</p> <div class="longdesc"> <p>Droughts and floods will become more extreme if we don’t act on climate change, says Wouter Buytaert, Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at Imperial.</p> </div> </div> </div>   <div class="video-playlist-item" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66PVLPA-uFk" tabindex="0"> <div class="col lg-4 md-0 sm-12"> <div class="video-placeholder "> <img src="/assets/website/images/placeholder/video-placeholder.jpg" alt="Dr Bonnie Waring"> </div> </div> <div class="col lg-8 md-12"> <h4>Dr Bonnie Waring, Senior Lecturer at the Grantham Institute</h4> <p>Dr Bonnie Waring discusses the carbon cycle and how far forests can help tackle climate change.</p> <div class="longdesc"> <p>Dr Bonnie Waring, Senior Lecturer at the Grantham Institute, discusses her research on the carbon cycle and how far nature-based solutions like tree planting can be effective in helping to tackle climate change.</p> </div> </div> </div>   <div class="video-playlist-item" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGkDAkQPMDg" tabindex="0"> <div class="col lg-4 md-0 sm-12"> <div class="video-placeholder custom"> <img src="https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/prod01/channel_3/media/images/landscape-3000X2000/Guillermo-Rein.jpg" alt="Guillermo Rein, Professor of Fire Science"> </div> </div> <div class="col lg-8 md-12"> <h4>Guillermo Rein, Professor of Fire Science</h4> <p>Guillermo Rein, Professor of Fire Science, talks about his research into wildfires and fire science.</p> <div class="longdesc"> <p>From London to the Arctic, wildfires are an increasing threat we have to understand better, says Guillermo Rein, Professor of Fire Science in the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Science and Society.</p> </div> </div> </div>   <div class="video-playlist-item" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A92HsOxxwhQ&t=1s" tabindex="0"> <div class="col lg-4 md-0 sm-12"> <div class="video-placeholder "> <img src="/assets/website/images/placeholder/video-placeholder.jpg" alt="Dr Ana Mijic"> </div> </div> <div class="col lg-8 md-12"> <h4>Dr Ana Mijic, Senior Lecturer in Water Systems Analysis </h4> <p>Dr Ana Mijic discusses the water cycle, sustainable development and nature-based solutions.</p> <div class="longdesc"> <p>Dr Ana Mijic, Senior Lecturer in Water Systems Analysis and Co-Director of the Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation, discusses her research on the water cycle, sustainable development and nature-based solutions.</p> </div> </div> </div>  </div> </div> </div>  <h2 class="fake-h3 not-sr-only">Explore our work</h2><div class="image-grid image-grid-restricted-width"> <div class="row image-grid-row 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src="https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_3/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/CLOSE-~2.JPG" srcset=" https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/448x293/prod01/channel_3/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/CLOSE-~2.JPG 448w, https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/896x586/filters:upscale()/prod01/channel_3/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/CLOSE-~2.JPG 896w, https://pxl-imperialacuk.terminalfour.net/fit-in/1792x1172/filters:upscale()/prod01/channel_3/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/CLOSE-~2.JPG 1792w," alt="" class="image-grid-item-image" /> </div> <div class="image-grid-item-text-container"> <p class="image-grid-item-p">New strategies for sustainable fisheries management</p> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="image-grid-item col default"> <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/publications/all-publications/what-role-can-forests-play-in-tackling-climate-change.php" class="primary image-grid-item-link equal-height" 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