{"id":219224,"date":"2022-12-20T19:41:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=219224"},"modified":"2022-12-20T19:41:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:11:12","slug":"a-planet-in-crisis-tangible-outcomes-from-biological-diversity-convention-are-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-planet-in-crisis-tangible-outcomes-from-biological-diversity-convention-are-far-away\/","title":{"rendered":"A planet in crisis \u2013 Tangible outcomes from biological diversity convention are far away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201c<strong>A planet in crisis \u2013 Tangible outcomes from biological diversity convention are far away\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Hindu<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>20<sup>th<\/sup> December 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong><strong>Biodiversity conservation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The article discusses about the Convention on Biological Diversity <strong>(CBD)<\/strong> that took place in Montreal, Canada recently and the concerns over biodiversity.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the concerns for biodiversity?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>As per the <strong>UN estimate<\/strong>, 34,000 plant and 5,200 animal species including one in eight of the world\u2019s bird species face extinction.<\/p>\n<p>About <strong>30% of breeds<\/strong> of main farm animal species are currently at high risk of extinction and about 45% of the earth\u2019s original forests do not exist.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What has been the stand of India in conserving biodiversity?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>India has decided to <strong>reduce the use of pesticide<\/strong>s and <strong>conserve 30% of land and sea<\/strong>. These both are great steps towards conserving biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>India has also said that different nations have different responsibility towards biodiversity conservation and richer nations should take efforts and provide funds to conserve biodiversity.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What was the outcome of the current CBD and what can be the course of action?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Countries have agreed to prepare <strong>road maps by 2024<\/strong> and the <strong>rich countries<\/strong> have committed $30 billion an annum by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>However, these commitments can become successful only when countries agree to <strong>define achievable targets<\/strong> to conserve biodiversity and there is a need to take urgent action by the countries across the globe to conserve the biodiversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cA planet in crisis \u2013 Tangible outcomes from biological diversity convention are far away\u201d published in The Hindu\u00a0on\u00a020th December 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Environment Relevance: Biodiversity conservation News: The article discusses about the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that took place in Montreal, Canada recently and the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-planet-in-crisis-tangible-outcomes-from-biological-diversity-convention-are-far-away\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A planet in crisis \u2013 Tangible outcomes from biological diversity convention are far away<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10498],"class_list":["post-219224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704639933},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}