Urgent action is needed in order to protect the rapidly accelerating extinction of biodiversity throughout the world's forests and oceans, international environmental organization Greenpeace said in a press release on Monday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 06th May, 2019) Urgent action is needed in order to protect the rapidly accelerating extinction of biodiversity throughout the world's forests and oceans, international environmental organization Greenpeace said in a press release on Monday.The United Nations released earlier on Monday a global assessment report conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services that warned that 1 million of the world's 8 million species were at risk of extinction and that biodiversity extinction rates were rapidly growing.
"This report is not just any call to action. It's the latest of many warnings and if we're not careful it may be the last before losses become irreversible. Biodiversity conservation and restoration can play an enormous role as natural climate solutions and it is high time we fight climate change by protecting the nature that sustains us," Greenpeace Germany forests and climate campaigner Christoph Thies said, as quoted in the press release.
In its statement, Greenpeace also urged governments to protect global oceans from overfishing by creating sanctuaries and international agreements to limit the exploitation of marine life.
Greenpeace also said that meat and dairy consumption and production, which are Primary contributors to deforestation and habitat destruction, should be reduced by at least 50 percent by 2050 in order to reverse the negative trends that were defined by the UN report.
In 2010, delegates from nearly 200 countries met in Aichi, Japan, for the 10th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Biodiversity to agree on a framework to stop biodiversity loss and protect ecosystems for the period up to 2020. According to the UN report released on Monday, most of the targets agreed on in Aichi will be missed by 2020.
