• Slogan, “We’re part of the solution” reminds us that our actions are needed to ensure that biodiversity is protected in order to ensure sustainable development.
• Sustainable lifestyle choices must be made available to everyone, everywhere.
• Solutions exist to protect Earth’s genetic diversity on land and sea, everybody has a part to play.
• Countries to adopt robust, ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework in October, relevant for both the post-pandemic period of reconstruction and in building the resilience needed in the face of growing environmental, health and development challenges.
Context: Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented and alarming rate, with pressures intensifying. We are depleting resources faster than nature can replenish them. COVID-19 crisis highlights just how critical the health of nature is for human well-being and sustainable development. By reversing biodiversity loss, we can improve human health, realize sustainable development, and address the climate emergency. Solutions exist to protect Earth’s genetic diversity on land and sea. Everybody has a part to play. Sustainable lifestyle choices are the key. The choice to live sustainably must be made available to everyone, everywhere. This means better policies that promote government, business and individual accountability. We all need to be part of a movement for change. This year, world leaders will meet in Kunming, China, to agree on an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Let us support their mission by advocating for nature. Let’s all be part of the solution.
Quotes: António Guterres, UN Secretary-General: “We need to protect nature, restore ecosystems and establish a balance in our relationship with the planet. The rewards will tremendous. By reversing biodiversity loss, we can improve human health, realize sustainable development and address the climate emergency. Solutions exist to protect our planet’s genetic diversity on land and at sea. Everybody has a part to play.”
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity:
“World leaders are presently embarking on a journey to negotiate an ambitious post- 2020 global biodiversity framework that will be agreed later this year at COP-15 in Kunming, China. It is imperative that we get a compact that will support and enable transformative change and alter the behaviour of people, businesses and governments around the world.