Time for Nature

The World Environment Day is dedicated to the serious decline of biodiversity in the Planet. About a million of species (on a total of 8.7 million estimated by scientist) are threatened by extinction Biodiversity crisis also put in danger the provision of eco-systems services, from food to wood, from water to medicines, from climate regulation to soil erosion control, from recreational to cultural values. The food security, well-being and prosperity of the human community is endangered if no action is taken to reverse the biodiversity crisis. The slogan chosen for the edition 2020 is “Time for Nature” and to celebrate this important day, Ispra is organizing a round table where have been invited the Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea Sergio Costa, and the Ministry of agriculture, food and forestry policies Teresa Bellanova, together with ISPRA management and other experts of various Institutions. Ispra, with this initiative, which comes a few days after the issue of the EU Biodiversity Strategy, in the frame of the UN Global Agreement on Biodiversity, which must be approved at the summit UN that will take place in Kunming (China) in 2021, aims to aims to raise citizens global awareness and stimulate dialogue between the competent authorities and stakeholders on the paths to follow to achieve the EU Strategy and the UN Agreement targets!

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