Biodiversity gains action endorsement from over 100 countries
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports
The United Nations Climate Conference in Kunming, China, has influenced over 100 countries of the world to commit to global biodiversity, entailing urgent actions that would protect endangered animal and plant species and curb extinction.
The Kunming Declaration which was signed Wednesday forms an agreement among the countries in the pact to intervene in the rapid loss of animal and plant species through implementation of protection measures in their economies.
The Oracle Today reports that the loudest chorus on environmental protection, biodiversity preservations and climate change arrest revolves around reduction of emissions that heat up the planet and worsen living conditions for plants and animals.
Scientists call out methane gas as key culprit in global warming. Some of the key sources of methane are fossil fuel including petroleum and coal, ruminant animals, and industrial farming processes.
At Kunming, countries in the agreement committed to curbing processes that harm life and endanger the planet. They also committed to collective measures that would protect biodiversity curb rapid loss of the world’s species.
“With grave concern that the unprecedented and interrelated crises of biodiversity loss, climate change, land degradation and desertification, ocean degradation, and pollution, and increasing risks to human health and food security, pose an existential threat to our society, our culture, our prosperity and our planet,” the declaration contained.
The conference noted that loss of animal and plant species has reached its fastest rate in 10 million years, but that were no specific targets to which coalition members would aspire.
Earlier declaration in 2010 by the conference in Aichi, Japan, had set targets for 2020 even though there was no palpable result from the pact.
