The climate crisis will reveal new viruses with unforeseeable consequences

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Working Group on Climate Change has warned that the climate crisis will uncover new viruses currently buried in glaciers and disasters of unpredictable consequences. The climate crisis will reveal new viruses with unforeseeable consequences in the coming years.

In a statement, the Spanish IUCN Committee underlines that climate change “constitutes one of the main threats to ecosystems worldwide and is one of the most urgent development and environmental challenges that humanity must face, with many worse and irreversible consequences than the COVID-19 pandemic ”.

IUCN has drawn up a decalogue with recommendations against the climate crisis, aimed especially at state and regional administrations.

The objective is to help develop adaptation and mitigation strategies to be included in the new Law on Climate Change and Energy Transition

The text recalls that 80 percent of the population lives in urban areas and it is precisely these that are most affected by climate change and air pollution.

“With political will, we can roll back the serious consequences of climate change in a short time,” says Pedro Pozas, IUCN Executive Director.

Pozas highlights some of the measures included in the Decalogue, such as promoting public transport, facilitating the creation of urban gardens, promoting green areas in cities, promoting solar energy, avoiding the use of insecticides and chemicals in agriculture, or reducing the consumption of meat.

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