Consider the Burying Beetle. (Or Else.)

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The current level of biodiversity loss is extraordinary in human history: The global rate of species extinction is at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10 million years. At the end of 2022, countries around the world came together in Montreal for an agreement akin to the Paris climate accord to tackle the biodiversity crisis. Here’s more on the effort and how it seeks to confront the problem. Guest: Catrin Einhorn, who reports on biodiversity and climate for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:03.8	This is Idalee.
0:07.0	Today, the story behind the ambitious new global agreement to protect the planet that
0:19.5	you probably haven't heard of.
0:24.8	My colleague, Katrin Einhorn, explains.
0:36.0	It's Friday, January 6th.
0:43.1	Katrin as 2022 came to a close, something really big happened in your corner of the world
0:50.2	that I think escaped the attention of the rest of us.
0:53.1	Even though it's not really just my corner.
0:54.7	It's not your corner of the world.
0:55.7	If it's all nature.
0:56.7	It's all corners of the world.
0:57.9	Yes.
0:58.9	Something quite historic, actually.
1:00.5	So tell us about this thing.
1:03.4	So listeners are probably familiar with the Paris Agreement, this big global agreement to
1:08.2	limit climate change.
1:09.5	Right.
1:10.5	The world locking hands, dozens of countries and saying we are going to do something about
1:14.5	carbon emissions.
1:15.5	Right.
1:16.5	So similarly, countries of the world came together just now in December in Montreal and
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