VANCOUVER — Politicians and environmental leaders from more than 180 countries have been in Vancouver, B.C.
, this week, with many pledging to accelerate action on climate change and biodiversity loss at the assembly of the Global Environment Facility.
"The climate and biodiversity crisis is not something that is going to happen later this century, in 25 years," Rodriguez said in an interview ahead of the assembly, the seventh since his organization launched in 1991.Canada's minister of environment and climate change, Steven Guilbeault, likewise said the wildfires that have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes serve as an"unwanted reminder of the need to act together with urgency.
"I don't want to see a world where we get to 2 degrees Celsius, what the impacts will be in Canada and around the world," Guilbeault said in an interview.Guilbeault along with Ahmed Hussen, the federal minister of international development, announced Thursday that Canada would be the first country to make a public pledge in support of a fund launched during this week's assembly.
Biodiversity and ecosystems underpin human health, well-being and economic growth, but biodiversity loss has reached"critical levels," he said. "There is a consensus that if we don't incorporatecivil society and private sector, there won't be time to really be on track on climate and biodiversity," said Rodriguez, who previously served as Costa Rica's environment minister.
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