Zubair Qureshi
in Paris, France
President Emmanuel Macron’s government is emphasising on climate protection, tackling biodiversity challenge to ensure human health, food and water security. This is a unique pride and one of the fundamental elements of the French government’s policies.
Pakistani media persons were briefed by the French experts on climate change about salient features of the government’s internal and international policies particularly about International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN)World Congress on Biodiversity to be held in June this year.
The IUCN world congress will take place 11-19 June in Marseille under the theme “One Nature One Future’ and aims to mobilize all concerned actors a few months before Biodiversity COP 15 to be held in October, in Kunming, China.
These media persons are on a week-long trip of the country organized by the Embassy of France in Islamabad.
While welcoming the Pakistani delegation Deputy General Secretary of the IUCN World Conservation Congress Lionel Fabre said he expected that the upcoming event is going to be a game changer with regard to shaking world conscience on threats of loss of biodiversity, melting glaciers pollution and their risks to plants and animals.
The event titled “The IUCN World Conservation Congress” will be the world’s most inclusive environmental event and drive global action towards most sustainable future.
One important element of the Congress will be the Generation Nature Areas, that will be open to general public and showcase, on a huge area of 50,000 sq metres, hundreds of projects from climate activists, NGO and civil society to inform the public on how our human activities impact biodiversity and above all how we can become actors of change, through concrete measures, experiments, exhibitions…
We shall be involving the visitors by turning them into actors so that they could put in their efforts to protect this planet’s biodiversity, he said.
The IUCN world congress would be featuring various themes highlighting risks to our forests, oceans, cities and towns by growing use of plastic.
Founded in France in 1948, the International Union for Conservation of Nature helds a congress every four years; it will be the first one taking place in France.
The seven themes which the IUCN World Conservation Congress will address include protracting landscape for nature and people, conserving fresh water to sustain life, restore ocean health, climate change mitigation and adaptation, effective and equitable governance, sustainable economic and financial system and last but not least advancing knowledge, learning innovation and technology.
