(Read the first short comic about COP15 here, lisez la version française ici.)

Politics is everywhere. It is why I take the time talk about the environmental backlash that happened in USA in the 1970s and the 1980s, ending by market-oriented environmental regulations. And that impacted our way to manage biodiversity.

References

• Bonneuil, C. 2015. Tell me where you come from, I will tell you who you are: A genealogy of biodiversity offsetting mechanisms in historical context, Biological Conservation;
• Damiens, L.P., Porter, L., Gordon, A. 2021. The politics of biodiversity offsetting across time and institutional scales, Nature Sustainability.
• Jones, B. 2021. Why the US won’t join the single most important treaty to protect nature. Vox;
• Informations about Montréal COP15 (Secrétariat of the convention on biological diversity);
• Canada and COP15;
• Ministère de l’Environnement du Québec and biodiversity;
• Montréal and COP15;
• Collectif COP15: for Living Generations (Quebec civil society alliance).