Participants at the meeting to celebrate the International Mother Earth Day in 2023 (Photo: VNA) Addressing the event, President of the UNGA 77 Csaba Kőrösi expressed concern about the impact of unsustainableeconomic development, production, and consumption on the earth.
He also emphasised the need to reduce impacts on the environment,respect biological limits, recognise the interdependence between humans andecosystems, and look for new solutions to environmental issues.
Representatives from countries have reaffirmed their interest in and commitment topromoting the protection of the earth, responding to climate change, protectingglobal biological systems and biodiversity, and promoting harmony with natureand the earth, thus realising sustainable development goals (SDGs) and movingtowards a more sustainable world.
They stressed that these goals need to be achieved through a varietyof measures such as enhancing global cooperation and multilateralism, securingresources and scientific knowledge, transferring technology, building capacity,and promoting joint global efforts to address existing challenges.
In 2009, the UNGA decided to designate April 22 as the InternationalMother Earth Day with the aim of increasing public awareness and global effortsin protecting the earth and biodiversity, and ensuring harmonisation between humans,other creatures and the earth./.
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