Emergency messages on the global environment

Improving water quality, while improving understanding is a problem the whole world is facing. The United Nations urgently urged responsibility for environmental protection, disaster prevention.

UN: Collective responsibility with the ocean

According to VNA, on September 3, in the message to the International Conference on Ocean in New York (United States), UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon emphasized the central role of the marine environment for with humanity and call on countries to exercise collective responsibility to protect the world's oceans.

Waste is invading the ocean. (Photo: Nationalgeographic.com)

With the theme of ' Ocean, climate change and sustainable development ,' the 2010 conference highlighted the indispensable role of the ocean and the great benefits it brings to mankind. Maintaining and protecting the vitality and ecological functions of the ocean is the basis for the prosperous and sustainable future of people.

Mr. Ban Ki-moon stressed that while the oceans create oxygen sources, provide food and nutritional resources, absorb emissions causing greenhouse effect against climate change ., then the activities human beings are seriously polluting the environment and ecosystems of the oceans.

Biodiversity of oceans is also threatened by unsustainable exploitation of ocean resources. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) warns that the kinds of waste of human society from the mainland, the atmosphere, from agriculture, industry and urban population are constantly increasing. Contaminating the oceans not only on the coast, but also the water between the ocean.

Stop sabotaging coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrass beds, coastal marshes . both reduce the adverse impact of climate change and bring socio-economic benefits to hundreds of millions of people. depend on the ocean.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon affirmed that all human actions towards the oceans must be carried out within the framework of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, considered 'the constitution of the oceans . ' Humanity needs to have a clear and collective awareness of the importance of the ocean for human existence, about the impact of the ocean on climate, weather and drinking water. All priorities should be reserved for coastal and ocean management programs, ocean science and ocean technology.

UN: For a world of greenhouse gases

According to Vietnam News Agency, on September 3, the United Nations called on governments around the world to act urgently to reach a world with little or no greenhouse gas emissions.

UN aid agencies stressed that humanity could not aggravate unprecedented disasters such as floods in Pakistan and recent forest fires in Russia.

Under the United Nations, governments have pledged to cut or not to increase greenhouse gas emissions, but at the Global Conference on Climate Change in the upcoming Mexico City of Cancun, countries must agree on emissions quotas, decide when and how to implement these commitments responsibly to achieve a legally binding global treaty on combating climate change.

Negotiations in Tianjin (China) of 42 ministers of the world's largest emissions of emissions in October will be the last chance before the Cancun Summit to achieve a common stance on gas change. post global.

Smoke discharged from a cement plant in Hubei province, China . (Photo: Reuters).

So far, wealthy industrialized countries have pledged $ 30 billion to developing countries to reduce emissions, adapt and reduce the impact of climate change from now until 2012. rich countries also pledged to increase the amount of donor countries to $ 100 billion by 2020.

However, the United Nations stressed that developed and developing countries need specific proposals to implement these commitments at the Cancun Conference in December.

Global: Water quality challenges

According to the VNA, the " World Water Week " conference in Stockholm, Sweden will take place on September 5-11 in Stockholm to focus on discussing the essential issue of water quality - the biggest challenge of all time. gender is facing.

Many well-known experts participating in ' World Water Week ' will conduct discussions and make specific recommendations on improving water quality, thereby gradually improving the understanding of key planners. books and the public for water quality issues.

Anders Boenteer, director of the Stockholm International Water Research Institute, Sweden, said the water quality issue will be the focus of the World Water Week, coming soon in Stockholm this year.

He also said: ' In the past, we often discussed water issues from a quantitative perspective, such as how to make more people use water. However, we still do not have enough concerns in water quality issues. I think it's time we need to focus on the challenges of water quality. '

This is one of the biggest challenges facing the whole world.