The Nagoya biodiversity summit, a cynical fraud in global
politics 11 November 2010 The Nagoya summit on biodiversity has
received little media coverage. This is in marked contrast to
the Copenhagen climate change summit. Copenhagen failed to reach
an agreement to deal with the potential catastrophe facing
humanity from greenhouse gas emissions because of conflicting
national interests and rivalries. But it received extensive
media coverage. The few reports that did appear about Nagoya
suggested a successful outcome to the two week of negotiations.
The British-based Guardian hailed the Nagoya agreement as a
victory for “goodwill and compromise,” a “morale booster” that
even restored confidence in the United Nations after the fiasco
of Copenhagen. Much is at stake. It is widely established that
many of the world's wildlife species are under threat. The tiger
population has declined by 40 percent in the last decade due to
poaching and land clearance. Altogether, 20 percent of
vertebrates are endangered or threa