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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | A pledge to do better for world biodiversity -Rupesh K Bhomia and Abhay Kumar

A pledge to do better for world biodiversity -Rupesh K Bhomia and Abhay Kumar

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published Published on Jun 9, 2020   modified Modified on Jun 12, 2020

-The Indian Express

June 5 was World Environment Day. We must strive to preserve our environment better if we want to prevent pandemics like COVID-19

This year’s celebration of World Environment Day — on June 5 — has been different compared to all the previous years, as human civilisation faces one of its biggest crises. The COVID-19 pandemic is larger than the environmental crisis of the 1960s and ’70s, which prompted the United Nations to organise the first-ever world conference on the environment in Stockholm in June 1972.

It marked a turning point, then, in the development of international environmental policies and politics. This conference also led to the establishment of a dedicated UN entity, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), based in Nairobi, Kenya. World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5 every year to commemorate that seminal conference, and to recognise the progress made on critical environment issues since then. It also serves as a reminder to gear up for new challenges.

As an annual tradition, this year’s theme for World Environment Day was biodiversity. It is quite remarkable that the recent outbreak of COVID-19 can be linked to the health of ecosystems and human encroachment into wild habitats.

The frequency of disease epidemics affecting human beings has increased in the recent past. In the last 40 years, there have been more than 12,000 instances of outbreaks worldwide, recording more than 40 million individual cases. Increased global travel, trade and connectivity and high-density living are some of the key factors that have contributed to such outbreaks.

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The Indian Express, 9 June, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/world-environment-day-covid-pandemic-6450766/?fbclid=IwAR208wmlNnCBEW-sQtJ1ZGrs641pFXjGxa7au5xy2uXnVCcDqdqGJBuZ-R8


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