UNITED NATION
\nMarking International Mother Earth Day, UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid Friday urged collective action to safeguard biodiversity and protect ecosystems so that human health and well-being are not endangered.
\n\u201cWe are wreaking havoc on our own home the only home we have, the one home we all share,\u201d President Shahid told an interactive dialogue on Harmony with Nature.
\nPakistan, speaking on behalf of the \u2018Group of 77\u2019 developing countries and China, echoed UNGA president\u2019s words, warning that if the current trend of biodiversity loss and environmental degradation continued, \u201cwe would seriously jeopardize our existence on this planet.\u201d
\n\u201cIt is scientifically proven that the loss in biological diversity would pose a threat to our society, our culture, our prosperity, and our planet,\u201d said Umer Younis, an official of the Pakistan Mission to the UN.
\nIn his remarks, Shahid, the president of 193-member Assembly, urged the international community to accept responsibility for its reckless behaviour, noting that science has shown that our continued and careless encroachment into the world\u2019s ecosystems has damaged biodiversity and endangered human health and well-being.
\nReferencing this year\u2019s theme of \u2018Harmony with Nature and Biodiversity: Ecological economics and Earth-centered law\u2019, President Shahid called for a shift to green economies and highlighted the need to embrace education, technology, and science.
\nHe said the international community needs to use the tools and targets of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as blueprints for a sustainable recovery from COVID-19.
\nThe interactive dialogue is called for in General assembly resolution 75\/220, to discuss the relationship between harmony with nature and the protection of biological diversity, and to inspire citizens and societies to reconsider how they interact with the natural world in the context of sustainable development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNITED NATION Marking International Mother Earth Day, UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid Friday urged collective action to safeguard biodiversity and protect ecosystems so that human health and well-being are not endangered. \u201cWe are wreaking havoc on our own home the only home we have, the one home we all share,\u201d President Shahid told an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6316,6317,6315],"class_list":{"0":"post-257028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-earths-natural-life","9":"tag-threaten","10":"tag-unga-chief"},"yoast_head":"\n