Sapporo [Japan], April 16 (ANI): Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Sunday mentioned defending and restoring ecosystems can assist the world scale back the extent of local weather change and address its impacts.
Speaking on the Plenary Session on the G7 Ministers’ Meeting on Climate, Energy and Environment in Sapporo, Japan he mentioned it will be significant that we tackle points associated to local weather change in tandem with environmental motion, holistically.
Yadav mentioned local weather change, desertification and biodiversity loss are deeply interlinked and pose existential challenges to humanity.
In response to those challenges, he mentioned Rio Conventions have made exceptional progress, by means of a consensus-driven strategy, based mostly on ideas.
Yadav mentioned very just lately on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) convention in Montreal the participant nations adopted the Global Biodiversity Framework and at CoP27 at Sharm el Sheikh, landmark choices on points just like the Loss and Damage fund have been taken.
The Union Minister mentioned India in its Presidency of G-20, for instance, has taken this strategy and embedded mitigation and adaptation deeply throughout precedence areas of arresting land degradation, accelerating ecosystem restoration, and enriching biodiversity. He mentioned the strategy promotes a sustainable and climate-resilient blue economic system; encouraging useful resource effectivity and round economic system; with Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE) as a cross-cutting theme, thus mainstreaming local weather change, and addressing the impacts in an bold, decisive and action-oriented method.
Yadav mentioned India has been a part of offering options, whereas it traditionally has not been a part of any of the issues. He mentioned India has slightly taken robust home actions, set difficult bold targets for itself and can also be steering worldwide actions by means of varied initiatives.
He mentioned India’s strategy has been targeted on the convergence of the problems associated to local weather change, biodiversity loss and air pollution. This has mirrored in taking on initiatives based mostly on particular interventions by means of International Solar Alliance (ISA), Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), Lead IT.
The Union Minister mentioned India has additionally targeted on the motion by all, together with particular person and neighborhood actions by means of Mission LiFE. Changing particular person and neighborhood behaviour alone could make a big dent within the environmental and local weather crises.
Yadav mentioned the just lately launched International Big Cat alliance, on the event of fifty years of Project Tiger, is rooted in the truth that conserving large cats and their habitats can safe a few of the most essential pure ecosystems on Earth resulting in pure local weather change adaptation, water, and meals safety for hundreds of thousands of individuals, and supply livelihood and sustenance to forest communities.
The Minister mentioned will probably be essential to make sure a country-driven strategy together with the ideas of fairness and CBDR-RC to undertake decisive motion. At the identical time, the voice of the worldwide South must be recognised for actually world management of G7 and to obtain precious inputs in direction of the implementation of G7 initiatives.
Yadav mentioned India seems to be ahead to the management of G7 Nations to make sure an efficient combat towards the triple challenges of local weather change, biodiversity loss and air pollution, for the unity of goal and unity of motion acutely aware of the truth that we have now One Earth, we’re One Family and have One Future. The Union Minister mentioned he appeared ahead to welcoming all at G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Ministerial Meeting in Chennai in July. (ANI)