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.
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April 12, 2021 last updated 9:8 ET A section of the Amazon rainforest stands next to soy fields in Belterra, Para state, Brazil, Nov. 30, 2019 (AP photo by Leo Correa).
The ‘30x30’ Campaign to Save the Biosphere
Over the past two years, an extraordinary global campaign has emerged to protect 30 percent of Earth’s total surface from human exploitation by 2030. The members of this so-called 30x30 coalition, which now includes scores of governments, understand that climate change is only one half of the planet’s environmental crisis. The Paris Agreement, while imperative to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will do little by itself to save the planet’s collapsing biodiversity or preserve the massive ecosystems upon which humanity depends and which we are fast degrading.
April 9, 2021
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Africa is creating its own Great Wall – and it’s green
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum.
Author: Andrea Willige, Senior Writer, Formative Content
The Great Green Wall initiative aims to restore an 8,000km strip of savanna along the southern edge of the Sahara desert.
100 million hectares of land are to be restored, 10 million jobs created and 250 megatonnes of carbon sequestered.
The initiative has just received a funding boost from donors including France and the World Bank to help achieve its goals by 2030.