THE STANDARD
ENVIRONMENT
Walid Badawi, UNDP Resident Representative.
We mark World Environment Day under extremely difficult circumstances. The globe is reeling from the impacts of COVID-19, arguably one of the worst ever global pandemics, as well as the devastating impacts of climate change that continues to push the world as we know it to that dreaded point of no-return.
Even as we applaud the efforts by various stakeholders to respond to these twin challenges of our generation, we note that more efforts are required to surmount these dynamic problems and put the world on a path to recovery.
On this 30th anniversary year of our seminal 2020 Global Human Development Report entitled, “ The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene, UNDP calls for ‘nothing short of a great transformation – in how we live, work and cooperate’ to change the path we are on.
/PRNewswire/ Earth Overshoot Day 2021 lands on July 29, Councillor Susan Aitken, the Leader of Glasgow City Council, announced today on behalf of Global.
Humans will have used up our quota of the earth’s biological resources by late July, almost a month earlier than last year, campaigners have warned.
The Global Footprint Network has calculated that this year’s Earth Overshoot Day will fall on July 29, several weeks sooner than last year when it fell on August 22.
Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used all the natural resources that earth regenerates during the entire year.
Campaigners said that this year’s date is almost as early as 2019, when it fell on July 26, after being momentarily pushed back in 2020 by lockdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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