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April 19, 2021 last updated 15:50 ET President Joe Biden signs an executive order on climate change in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington, Jan. 27, 2021 (AP photo by Evan Vucci).
How Biden Can Embrace Environmental Stewardship
This is shaping up to be a make-or-break year for international cooperation on biodiversity, though you might not know it. American news outlets have focused most if not all of their recent environmental reporting on climate change. On one level, of course, this makes sense. Climate change is the most daunting collective challenge that humanity has ever faced, and nations have fallen far behind the emissions reduction targets they set in Paris in 2015.
Global leaders pledge to protect nature at the UN Biodiversity Summit
The world s biodiversity is in a more precarious state than ever before. (Photo: Getty Images)Premium
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“Humanity is waging a war against nature, said the UN Secretary General António Guterres during his opening remarks at the United Nations Biodiversity Summit on 30 September. That is the unalloyed truth, as recent reports on the state of the planet’s biodiversity have borne out. We have also seen this play out in real time, with the annual cataclysmic fires in California, the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic Circle. As world leaders gathered by video conferencing to pledge to protect nature, and look forward to the UN Biodiversity Conference to be held in Kunming, China, in May 2021, the message on the state of the world was quite dire.
From Davos to Disha
World Economic Forum in 2018, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi identified three great threats to civilisation: climate change, terrorism and the backlash against globalization. He also added another one, that “educated, well-to-do youth are being radicalized…”
Disha Ravi and her colleagues Nikita Joseph and Shantanu Muluk are climate change activists. They also are “educated”, maybe “well-to-do”, maybe not (but does that matter?). All three, and thousands of
young people who are part of Fridays for Future and other such youth movements, strongly believe governments aren’t doing enough to tackle climate change. They even argue that globalisation based on an extractive paradigm of development must end if we are to secure climate stability, and for humanity to survive on this living planet.
February 18, 2021
As Earth’s biodiversity declines, the perilous consequences are proving to only rise.
The destabilisation of national economies, threats to food systems, escalation of climate change, and likelihood of global pandemics such as COVID-19 are all increasingly linked to the loss of the planet’s variety of life.
This year, however, the United Nations (UN) Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD) is set to instate a new global plan for biodiversity conservation that will run through 2030, seeing nations and leaders commit to higher standards of protection and restoration of natural habitats and ecosystems.
Concurrently, 2021 also sees the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a 10-year effort to “prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide”.