'Not adequate': experts rate Australian political response to extinction crisis

Following the publication of the UN's shocking report, we ask three experts to review and rank commitments from the Coalition, Labor and the Greens

The United Nations' global assessment of environmental health is grim: biodiversity declining at an unprecedented rate, one million species at risk of extinction, human populations in jeopardy if the trajectory is not reversed.

With the election less than two weeks away, Guardian Australia asked the Coalition, Labor and the Greens to explain how they planned to respond to the crisis. Three of the country's leading scientists assessed what the parties had to say.