Listen to Support it, WNYcke. Good morning again everyone. Now to our climate story of the week and this

week we'll hear about COP16, the UN Biodiversity Summit, dubbed by my next guest

Benji Jones from Vox,

as quote, the most important event you've never heard of.

Representatives from nearly every country on earth

are gathered in Colombia to tackle how

to stop the alarming loss of plant and animal species that keep our planet and us alive and thriving.

The key takeaway, biodiversity is in stark decline.

Wild animals, Benji rights are spiraling toward extinction.

More than a third of the world's tree species are at risk of extinction.

And what's the U.S. been doing to protect the national

natural world?

Well, one of Benji's stories that we'll talk about

is headline, every country is negotiating a plan

to save nature except the US. Benji Jones environmental correspondent at Vox, welcome back to WNYC.

Hey, good to be with you.

And listeners, we can take your phone calls, questions, or comments on biodiversity and the UN COP16 meeting

as it's called going on right now.

You called it the most important event you've never heard of.

Explain why you think so.

Yeah, so when it comes to all the environmental problems that we're facing

as a planet, as a society, I think we've seen climate change really rise to the

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