Save Biodiversity - End Poverty!
"The loss of services derived from ecosystems is a significant barrier to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty, hunger and disease."
At the 2000 UN Millennium Summit, world leaders from developed and developing countries alike committed themselves - at the highest political level - to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These eight time-bound goals aim at reducing poverty worldwide by 2015. In addition, at the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, the same leaders promised to significantly reduce the current rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.
Now it is time that both targets finally go hand in hand: The UN General Assembly in September 2006 should incorporate the 2010 biodiversity target into the MDG framework as a stepping stone towards ensuring environmental sustainability by 2015, the seventh Millennium Development Goal.
By signing the petition to the UN General Assembly you can take action to save biodiversity and end poverty.
Petition to all Members of the UN General Assembly
Biodiversity is the source of life, and a precondition for all development. We cannot eliminate poverty while overexploiting our natural resources. Reducing the loss of biodiversity is thus crucial to the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals. The 2010 Biodiversity Target should be seen as a prerequisite towards ensuring environmental sustainability. I call upon all members of the UN General Assembly to include the 2010 Biodiversity Target into the Millennium Development Goals.
Petition hosted at petitiononline.com
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