World Environment Day Quotes: Today is World Environment Day. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration will be launched today. Now more than ever, our planet needs us to step up and take action. Here are top 10 quotes on environment day
by Born Free USA in GNRII on June 04, 2021
Born Free USA joins the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) in celebrating World Environment Day 2021 on Saturday, June 5. This year’s World Environment Day theme is “Ecosystem Restoration” and the UN will use the opportunity to launch the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
Born Free USA supports World Environment Day 2021’s theme of “Ecosystem Restoration” because it is a guiding principle for Born Free’s Global Nature Recovery Investment Initiative (GNRII). Will Travers, co-Founder and Executive President of Born Free Foundation in the UK, says, “The prime objective of the GNRII is to make sure nature is heard, valued, recognized, prioritized, and loved as it should be. Through this initiative, we aim to amplify the knowledge and science that lays out how we need to change to ensure nature can recover fully. The priorities of our natural world must be what drives our economic growth.”
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The UN official spoke on Thursday at the Global Landscape Forum on the restoration of African drylands.
Anderson said the conference is coming at a critical moment when the world is in the “middle of a triple planetary crisis – climate crisis, biodiversity and nature crisis, and the pollution crisis”.
She said drylands need to be high on the ecosystem restoration agenda because they hold a third of the world’s biodiversity hotspot, half of the world’s livestock, produce 44 percent of crops, and are home to 40 percent of the world’s population.
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Anderson said the UN will continue to support the restoration of the African landscape because “finances, incentives, and investments in ecosystem restoration are critical to meeting the climate, biodiversity, and land goals”.
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