world day of ecological debt shows how a person is overdrawn what he has borrowed, the planet and future generations. To determine this, the professionals of GFN compare the rate of consumption of biological resources person (ecological footprint, human) with the ability of the planet to recover. The sooner the day comes ecololgy, the more we owe the planet and future generations, and Vice versa, the closer to the end of the year, shifting date, the debt is less.
This year has been special. People, at least, two months have not traveled, did not use transport to get to work, did not visit the shopping and entertainment centers, did not go to cafes and restaurants. It seems like during this time nature had to rest and recover. But the difficult economic situation has become the reason for the demand from large businesses on lowering environmental standards. Already inadequate environmental and climatic control leads to serious disasters.
“In the impact of pandemic nature cannot be anything good. This is the same stress for the planet and for people, – says Mikhail Babenko, Director of Green economy, WWF Russia. – Imagine someone decided to get in shape and set a goal to lose weight with stress or poisoning. Such measures can be, and help you become slimmer, but it certainly would not benefit the body, and are unlikely to be long-term. Ecosystem also. Only a systematic and steady steps of mankind toward nature can be effective. Not forced to stop production, and designed and technological measures to reduce its burden on the environment. Not a loss of jobs in the enterprises that produce, process or use fossil fuels, and a smooth transition to green energy sources, which subsequently will create new jobs. Not a forced reduction of energy consumption for production, and a smooth transition to energy efficient technologies and so forth.”
humanity over-consumption of the planet’s resources leads to environmental degradation, resulting in desertification, reduction of biodiversity, depletion of fertile layer of soil, etc. to Help reduce a debt to the planet and future generations can only be a conscious and careful attitude to nature and its resources.
Russia has approved the implementation Plan of the Russian Federation of the obligations under the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants. Among its activities: the accumulated destruction of unusable and forbidden pesticides, industrial wastes, and equipment cleaning areas, monitoring of pollutants in the environment environment and monitoring the health status of the population due to exposure to persistent organic pollutants.
