- GS TIMES STAFF
ON this year’s World Environment Day, the UN Environment Programme and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has launched the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. WHO has also joined this initiative.
- The UN Decade runs through 2030, which is the timeline scientists have identified as humanity’s last chance to prevent catastrophic climate change.
Objectives of UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
- The objective of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is to counter ‘triple environmental emergency’ of biodiversity loss, climate disruption and escalating pollution.
- It calls for stepping up efforts to prevent, halt and reverse degradation of areas such as grasslands, forests, oceans and mountains, essential to all life on Earth.
- The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are co-leading this global movement to re-imagine, recreate and restore ecosystems, which is crucial particularly as countries strive to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.
