The UN just recognized access to a healthy environment is a universal human right. It’s time for Canada to take action
The authors are all professors at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability. David Boyd is also the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment.
The world’s future became a little bit brighter recently. On July 28, for the first time in history, the United Nations General Assembly recognized that everyone, everywhere, has aNow it’s time for Canada to step up and take action to ensure that right for all its citizens. This historic move by the UN establishes obligations that governments must fulfill and empowers people with a set of tools they can use to hold governments accountable. Canada is not just a UN member, it’s a country for which the environment, and human rights, sits high on any political agenda.in order to safeguard its rich biodiversity of plants and animals.
This can be by helping pollinate our crops, clean our water, mitigate climate change, and maintain clean and beautiful sites where we can live. Because the nature that provides these crucial “ecosystem services” overlapswith the places that are crucial for endangered species and ecosystems, this means going beyond 25 per cent by 2025, and even beyond 30 per cent by 2030.
Second, Canadians need a dramatic new focus on rejuvenating nature in the urban areas where three-quarters of Canadians live.
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