Saving biodiversity, securing earth’s future ( GS-3, The Hindu, Environment)

05 Jun Saving biodiversity, securing earth’s future ( GS-3, The Hindu, Environment)

Context:- 5th June environment day which shows the commitment of humanity towards preservation of the environment. COVID-19 pandemic and increasing climate change shows the divergence of humanity from the environment.

Value of forest:-

• estimates suggest our forests alone may yield services worth more than a trillion rupees per year.
• Globally, we have lost 7% intact forests since 2000
• Climate change and the ongoing pandemic will put additional stresses on our natural ecosystems
• Preserving biodiversity is directly relevant to the social, economic, and environmental wellbeing of our people

What india is doing:-

• PMSTIAC in consultation with the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change and other Ministries approved an ambitious National Mission on Biodiversity and Human Well­Being (NMBHWB)

National Mission on Biodiversity and Human Well­Being (NMBHWB)

• The Mission will strengthen the science of restoring, conserving, and sustainably utilising India’s natural heritage
• establish a citizen and policy ­oriented biodiversity information system
• enhance capacity across all sectors for the realisation of India’s national biodiversity targets
• Mission will allow India (home to nearly 8% of global biodiversity on just 2.3% of global land area
• The pandemic has exposed the dysfunctional relationship between humanity and nature.
  • the emergence of infectious diseases
  • Lack of food and nutritional security
  • rural unemployment; and climate change
  •  with all its stresses on nature, rural landscapes
• The Mission offers
  •  a holistic framework
  •  integrated approaches
  • widespread societal participation.
• Mission programmes will offer nature­based solutions to numerous environmental challenges, including degradation of rivers, forests, and soils, and ongoing threats from climate change, 
• “One Health” programme, integrating human health with animal, plant, soil and environment.
• Additional programmes, directed at food and nutritional security, will in turn also influence public health outcomes

Way forward:-

• we need a strong and extensive cadre of human resources.
• training professionals of the highest calibre in sustainability
• Investment in civil society outreach.

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Swarn Singh

Plutus IAS Current Affair Team Member