UN vindicates Mother Earth

UN: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Wednesday that without a sustainable environmental basis there are dim possibilities to reduce extreme poverty and hunger, and improve health care and welbeing.

In a message released on the eve of the International Day of Mother Earth, Ban highlights the link between a clean environment and meeting the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs).

This especial date was established by the UN General Assembly which approved a resolution by an initiative presented by Bolivia and co-sponsored by some 50 countries.

The MDGs were set in 2000 to be fulfilled by 2015 in terms of reducing extreme poverty, hunger, improve education, attain equality of genders, scale down infant and maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS and other diseases and protect the environment and foster development.

Ban Ki-Moon states that protecting Mother Earth must be part of the comprehensive strategy to meet the MDGs whose progress will cap a September Summit.

The diplomat reminded that the consequences of abusing Mother Earth is already visible through climate change and a thinner Ozone layer, declining biodiversity, water pollution and soil depletion. Prensa Latina