Question 19481 — biodiversity

Summary

Ms. Florence Provendier alerts the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, to the climate emergency and the need to act to protect biodiversity. The Intergovernmental Scientific and Political Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) submitted its report on the state of biodiversity in the world on May 7, 2019 and the findings are frightening: 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction in the short term, i.e. 1 in 8 species; half a million would already be “walking dead” species if their habitats are not quickly restored; 75% of the terrestrial environment, 40% of the maritime ecosystem, 50% of the freshwater ecosystem are severely altered. The report identifies and prioritizes the causes of this catastrophe: the disappearance of natural environments; overexploitation; climate change ; pollution; invasive species. We can no longer deny the obvious: lifestyles must change and the model of overconsumption and overexploitation can no longer continue. The signing of the G7 Metz charter on May 7, 2019, on biodiversity is a first symbolic step towards this change. For two years, France has been doing better in many areas thanks, notably to biodiversity or the end of fossil fuel drilling. But we must go further and systematically place on the European and international agenda the need to change our way of living. The battle for biodiversity must accompany that for the climate, one cannot be done without the other. Coincidence or not with the calendar, during the first week of May 2019, France's ecological footprint exceeded the biocapacity of the planet. Indeed, in 2018 the NGO Global footprint network and WWF had set May 5, 2019 as “overshoot day” for the country. She asks him to detail the measures that the Government will take to reverse the trend and try to preserve living things.

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