"Here we are at June 5 - writes Martin Forest - now traditional feast of the Sun, as it is called for brevity in the English-speaking countries, namely, the World Environment Day, World Environment Day. The acronym Wed, in English, also sounds like marriage: the symbolic union of man with nature, with its promise of renewed love and respect forever. But this year more than signals of harmonious coexistence, seem to prevail over those of divorce.
TRADE - "Too many betrayals perpetrated by man against the environment, in recent times, "says the article entitled" Reflection on the "betrayal" of nature "(Corriere della Sera Online, June 4)." In the Gulf of Mexico, for over a month, BP tries to stem the flood of oil gushes from the bottom (one million liters per day), the result of careless exploitation of natural resources. All ratings are the fourth attempt to plug the mouth of the well out of control to be successful, as it seems from the first statement, otherwise the oil spill, transported by large ocean currents, could spread across the Atlantic, and the leap from disaster local to global scale. To stay in Mexico, Cancun, getting ready for the next conference Global Climate Change (November 29-December 10) that the agenda for the formulation of a new Protocol for the protection of the atmosphere and the climate system. After the resounding flop of last year in Copenhagen, expectations that the summit in Cancun to give continuity to the Kyoto pact, raising a shared program of reducing greenhouse gases, are high. But the persistent deadlock in the negotiations, meanwhile continued in Bonn, did not bode well: on the one hand the United States, China, India and other rapidly developing countries on the other, do not yet seem ripe to become a full member in the mechanism of the commitments reduction in binding. And while bears the expiration of the climate treaty (2012), there is already talk of postponing the decision to the next summit in South Africa.
BIODIVERSITY - "Do not be so much better things - continues Martin Forest - on the face of efforts to limit the loss of biodiversity, ie the disappearance of species caused by the impact of human activities on ecosystems: the central theme of this Wed ' year. The most recent assessments of biodiversity experts talk about an acceleration in the rate of extinction, which would have been exceeded by several thousand times that due solely to natural factors. At about a hundred million species on the planet, at least ten thousand each year WOULD BE disappearing because of our unsustainable development. With this heavy burden of guilt on his shoulders, the United Nations World Environment Day intend to do something more than the usual parade of celebrations rhetoric rather an opportunity to inform the world public opinion on the concrete actions in place to repair the various environmental bodies and, above all, to carry out educational campaigns targeting young people.
RESOURCES - "We must be clear that the entire system of planetary ecosystems generate resources and services to human development assessed in economic terms, more than 70 trillion dollars every year," said UNEP director general Achim Steiner, alla vigilia del Wed a Kigali (Ruanda). "Ne consegue che la cattiva gestione o l’aggressione agli ecosistemi può avere effetti economici negativi ben più gravi dell’attuale crisi economica. Gli investimenti per il recupero degli ecosistemi naturali offesi sono da considerare un necessario investimento redditizio, piuttosto che un onere passivo".
AZIONI – "Il responsabile dell’Unep ha pure annunciato una serie di azioni di successo attualmente in fase di sviluppo in varie località del mondo, con il concorso di programmi ambientali nazionali e internazionali. Per esempio, in Ruanda, Congo e Uganda, norme e controlli più severi attuati nei territori montani in cui vivono i gorilla resi famosi dalla zoologa Dian Fossey (e dal film interpretato da Sigourney Weaver), hanno fermato la strage di questi animali, i quali stanno incrementando la loro popolazione. Il loro territorio, trasformato in stupendi parchi naturali, è ora meta di pellegrinaggio di turisti e studiosi da tutto il mondo. A Istanbul in Turchia, nell’arco di due decenni il sistema di depurazione delle acque, prima riservato a poche centinaia di migliaia di abitanti, è stato esteso a 9 milioni di cittadini (il 95% della popolazione), determinando la rinascita di corsi d’acqua superficiali e sotterranei che erano diventati inutilizzabili a causa dell’inquinamento. In India e in Vietnam il recupero di migliaia di ettari di terreni popolati da mangrovie (formazioni vegetali dei litorali low), has rekindled the plant and animal life, with enormous economic benefits for the local food industry.
UNEP - "Established in 1972, together with the founding of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, United Nation Environment Programme), World Environment Day is celebrated simultaneously in many capitals and cities of the world, but has the main points references to two international summits, one in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, the other in Pittsburgh, the United States. In Kigali, the Director of UNEP, as well as presenting a report on the recovery of biodiversity titled Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development, attends a ceremony suggestive of baptism of mountain gorillas. In Pittsburgh, most of the reports as the dominant theme was the hydrosphere of our planet and the need to preserve it from the aggression of pollutants: a highly topical theme, which had been chosen before the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. In Italy Wed initiatives are directed primarily to students, with the launch by the Minister Gelmini Prestigiacomo and a million-euro project for schools to implement environmental education projects.
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