Melting moments

Two ice sculptures depicting US President Donald Trump and Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro sit across the Hudson River from the United Nations headquarters in the Queens Borough of New York City as the United Nations holds a oneday summit on biodiversity yesterday.

The melting sculptures were placed by Greenpeace to demonstrate the pair’s inaction on protecting biodiversity.

Opening the summit in New York, UN Secretarygeneral Antonio Guterres warned that a million species were at risk of extinction and that climate change and the loss of biodiversity were ‘‘destroying Earth’s web of life’’.

‘‘We are part of that fragile web and we need it to be healthy so we and future generations may thrive,’’ Guterres said.

The call to redirect financing away from fossil fuels and other polluting industries and into conservation was launched by environmental group Fauna & Flora International and backed by more than 130 organisations.