2021: The year the link between climate and biodiversity crises became clear

If there was any doubt about the inextricable link between the climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis, those doubts were dispelled in 2021, writes Max Benato

Demonstrators during the Fridays for Future Scotland march through Glasgow during the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. 

Bats sweltering in their boxes, polar bears and narwhals using up to four times as much energy to survive, birds starving as Turkey’s lakes dry up, and unique island species at high risk of extinction as the planet warms. 

If there was ever any doubt about the inextricable link between the climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis, those doubts were well and truly dispelled in 2021.