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| Thu, 18th Feb 2021 13:35:00 |
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UN offers science-based blueprint to tackle climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution |
“For too long, we have been waging a senseless and suicidal war on nature. The result is three interlinked environmental crises”, Secretary-General António Guterres told a virtual press briefing on the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report, Making Peace with Nature.
Pointing to climate disruption, biodiversity loss and pollution, which “threaten our viability as a species”, he detailed their cause as “unsustainable production and consumption”.
“Human well-being lies in protecting the health of the planet”, said Mr. Guterres.
Linking challenges
According to the UNEP report, the world can tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution crises together, but the UN chief said that these interlinked crises require “urgent action from the whole of society”.
Noting that some two-thirds of global CO2 emissions are linked to households, he underscored that “people’s choices matter”.
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