“‘To be or not to be’ is possibly the most well-known literary question of all. It is asked despairingly by Hamlet, the young prince of Denmark in the Shakespeare play of that name, while contemplating suicide, wracked with guilt, as he considers his fate and the actions that have led to it.
It is perhaps also the quintessential question which sums up, perhaps more than any other, the fate that faces humanity if the world leaders and negotiators who meet this May in Kunming (China) for COP15, the UN Biodiversity Conference – and this November in Glasgow for COP 26, the UN Climate Change Conference – do not act collaboratively and bravely on the twin challenges.”