{"id":102597,"date":"2020-02-21T00:42:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T08:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/china-takes-centre-stage-in-global-biodiversity-push"},"modified":"2020-02-21T00:42:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T08:42:23","slug":"china-takes-centre-stage-in-global-biodiversity-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/china-takes-centre-stage-in-global-biodiversity-push","title":{"rendered":"China takes centre stage in global biodiversity push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-takes-centre-stage-in-global-biodiversity-push2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s species and natural ecosystems are in crisis. When nearly 200 countries gather in ten days\u2019 time to thrash out a major plan to stem the precipitous decline, China is expected to take a prominent role. The high-stakes negotiations will set the stage for a major biodiversity summit in October, which the country will also host \u2014 marking the first time the nation will lead global talks on the environment.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A major United Nations summit could see China push for ambitious targets and spotlights the country\u2019s own conservation efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s species and natural ecosystems are in crisis. When nearly 200 countries gather in ten days\u2019 time to thrash out a major plan to stem the precipitous decline, China is expected to take a prominent role. The high-stakes negotiations will set the stage for a major biodiversity summit in October, which the country will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}