UN biodiversity summit kicks off in China and online

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Delegates from around the world are meeting in person and in Kunming, China, this week in the first part of a high-stakes summit to protect nature. It’s a UN summit on biodiversity. Their goal is to create a kind of Paris Agreement to protect the globe’s plants and animals over the next decade. The World’s environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler has details. 

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