This year the main theme of the International Biodiversity Day reflects the importance of efforts carried out on several fronts to make a series of sustainable development goals solid, as part of the program planned by the United Nations for the 2015-2030 period.
For the occasion, the Biodiversity Park, the Biodiversity Park, the 8, 500 square meter area dedicated to organic farming and the agricultural biodiversity of the Expo created by BolognaFiere was officially inaugurated on Saturday 16 May. It will be in the park that the day dedicated to biodiversity will be celebrated on 22 May next.
Together with the Park, the Organic Pavilion and the International Organic Forum at Expo have also opened.
In Italy, apart from Expo, a city that has been busy for the event is definitely Perugia . Here, as per the official program, the Umbria Region Observatory for Biodiversity, together with the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences of the University of Perugia, organizes a half-day of celebrations on 22 May, at the assembly hall of the abbey of San Pietro. For the occasion, there will be conferences and meetings with the rector of the University and various well-known professors on the subject of biodiversity and the environment, starting at 9.30 am.
Here also the facebook page is useful to stay up to date on the events and meetings of the day all over the world.
Good intentions for the day
Among the purposes and objectives of the Rio + 20 document "The future we want ", an essential part from which to start, there are:
- put an end to the problem of poverty, in all its forms and everywhere in the world;
- put an end to the problem of world hunger, increasing food safety of nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture;
- to ensure a healthy life and promote well-being for all ages;
- ensuring equal and equitable education for all and promoting learning opportunities for all;
- achieve equal rights for men and women, giving more strength to women and girls around the world;
- ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and health security for all;
- to ensure everyone access to reliable forms of sustainable energy at the right price;
- promote sustainable economic growth for all, ensuring productive employment and decent work;
- build resilient infrastructures, promote sustainable industrialization and increase innovation ;
- reduce inequality within and between countries;
- to make the city and human settlements safe, resilient and sustainable ;
- to ensure sustainable production and consumption patterns ;
- take urgent action against climate change and its impacts;
- preserve and use the oceans, seas and marine resources in a sustainable way; protect, restore and promote an eco-sustainable use of ecosystems, forests, fighting desertification, stopping the degradation and loss of biodiversity;
- promote peaceful and just societies, for the development of sustainable institutions;
- strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global union for sustainable development .
In addition to the points mentioned above, last October's Gangwon meeting in Korea last year highlighted other main points in a formal statement, the Gangwon Declaration on Biodiversity for Sustainable Development, to recall attention to the importance of biological diversity .
