Professor Tommy Koh - also one of the world's senior most international environmental diplomats - speaks with host Nirmal Ghosh at his office for ST's Green Pulse Podcast, discussing if the world is really living through a sixth 'great extinction'.The climate change crisis has captured the imagination, but the world is at a confluence of crises with the other two - biodiversity, and oceans.
Few have had such global perspective and insight into complex issues like Prof Koh. He chaired the main committee at the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit and the confabulations that produced the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea - both pivotal in global environmental law. He declared: “We’ve been overfishing. We’ve used unsustainable practices... and we have to do something about this.”