FAQs about Biodiversity
1. Why is International Day of Biological Diversity celebrated on May 22?
The Second Earth Summit, held by the UN in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, recognized the global need to reconcile the future preservation of biodiversity with human progress, according to the sustainability criteria promulgated in the International Convention on Biological Diversity, which was approved in Nairobi, on May 22, 1994, the date declared by the UN General Assembly as International Day of Biological Diversity and 2010 as the International Year of Biological Diversity by the 61st session of the General Assembly of the UN in 2006.
FAQs about Biodiversity
1. Why is International Day of Biological Diversity celebrated on May 22?
2. What is biodiversity, and which is the most biodiverse country in the world?
3. What are the megadiverse countries of Latin America?
4. What is the Environmental Conservation Monitoring Center?
5. What are the dangers to marine biodiversity?
6. How many species are there in the Amazon and what is the danger they face?
7. What is the importance of biodiversity?
8. How is biodiversity measured?
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June 5 was established as World Environment Day by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972. On that date, the Stockholm Conference “First Earth Summit” was held at the initiative of Sweden and in conjunction with the UN.
World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5 of each year. In 2020 the venue of the event was Colombia. Topics to be discussed was the Amazon, air quality, health, circular economy, and climate change.
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