Galina Jönsson is a Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP postgraduate research student at the Grantham Institute and the Natural History Museum researching long-term biodiversity trends. She is a member of the Imperial College London’s delegation to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) and, here, she discusses the importance of simultaneously tackling global biodiversity loss and climate change.
Tag: biodiversity
The unloved animal club: Celebrating animals that need more love!
Nature, beyond its intrinsic value, provides us with a wealth of benefits and services that support us through our daily lives. Biodiversity, however, is declining globally and greater…
Whole latte love for the future of coffee
Rafa Alonso-Arenas explores how climate change is impacting coffee farmers and plants and what can be done about it.
Rewilding: What ‘wild’ are we talking about?
Henrike Schulte to Bühne discusses why a shared rewilding definition remains elusive, and how a consensus may be reached.
The peaks and valleys of biodiversity conservation
Dr Rikki Gumbs, who completed his PhD at Imperial in 2020 and now works with the Zoological Society of London…
A new sustainable measure of economic health
The world needs to replace Gross Domestic Product (GDP) with a fit-for-purpose measure of economic health – could Sustainable Domestic…
COVID-19 and planetary change: The food system is sick
Professor Paolo Vineis, Chair of Environmental Epidemiology at Imperial’s School of Public Health, blogs on why the food system must…
It’s not just the plight of the bumblebee, we need to protect all our pollinators
Kate Rowell, Grantham Institute and Imperial College Business School Master’s student studying Climate Change, Management and Finance, looks at why…