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Momentum is building for a ‘robust’ biodiversity framework: Q&A with Elizabeth Mrema
One of the many impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been to rally global ambition for a biodiversity framework that sets the world on a path to a sustainable future, says Elizabeth Maruma Mrema.
Mrema, executive secretary of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), says there’s growing awareness of the importance of biodiversity for everything from food security to the regulation of water and air quality, to pest and disease regulation.
“World leaders fully recognize that the continued deterioration and degradation of Earth’s natural ecosystems are having major impacts on the lives and livelihoods of people around the world,” she says.
Only two to three percent of planet ecologically intact
Only two to three percent of the Earth s surface remains intact from an ecological point of view, 10 times less than previously estimated, indicates a study released on 15 April.
The authors of the research, published by the scientific publication Frontiers , consider worrying that only 11 percent of the sites assessed in the study are in protected areas, and explain that many of the identified areas coincide with territories managed by indigenous communities, who play a key role in their maintenance.
The areas identified as functionally intact include Eastern Siberia and northern Canada for the boreal and tundra biomes, and part of the Amazon rainforests and the Congo basin and Sahara desert.
How to Save the Coastlines from Climate Change Disasters
Coastal habitats serve as a critical first line of defense, and their loss puts communities at even greater risk from coastal flooding. Coral reefs work as natural breakwaters and reduce flooding by breaking waves offshore. by Michael W. Beck, Los Angeles Times / April 15, 2021 Aereal view of the Caribbean sea and the lagoon in the touristic zone, after the passage of Hurricane Delta in Cancun, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, on Oct. 8, 2020. After the hurricane, an insurance policy paid out money to replace dislodged coral heads and prevent further damage. (Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)
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