We don't know exactly what the impacts will be, but we expect there will be a tangible impact
on ecosystem integrity that will also have an effect on humans.
Intensive advocacy by the RSWG in subsequent meetings finally led to the reintroduction of text on
ecosystem integrity in October 2015 from a submission by the Philippines.
The symposium also will focus on using the One World, One Health concept, which establishes a more interdisciplinary and cross-sectional approach to preventing epidemic or epizootic disease and for
maintaining ecosystem integrity, according to Merial.
Maligne Lake has been re-introducing native grasses in previously impacted areas; this will help to
restore ecosystem integrity and improve the quality of wildlife habitat in the area.
But in the Gulf, the amount of ocean truly protected (where even fish, shrimp and lobsters are safe) is a slim thread upon which to hang
overall ecosystem integrity, let alone recovery from the latest blows.
A crisis in the first week saw the language on
ecosystem integrity dropped from the text proposed by the co-facilitators of the spin - off group, while human rights was removed from Article 2.2 (Purpose), left only in the Preamble.
We emphasized that inclusion of
ecosystem integrity in the Preamble is not enough, and would be a backsliding from the Convention itself.
We in RSWG continued to campaign hard for the inclusion
of ecosystem integrity, human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples in the operational part of the text.
The Philippines and Turkey intervened to restore the language
on ecosystem integrity in the Preamble, while Mexico made sure we were able to preserve the gains on human rights.
From June 2010 — December 2015, I was the National Coordinator of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, (AFSA) which is Australia's first national alliance of producers, local food businesses, community gardeners, farmers market coordinators, food social enterprises, local governments, health professionals and many others who share a vision of a food system based on the values of fairness to all, health and well - being, and
ecosystem integrity.
Our mission is to support the development of principles and practices for protection, enhancement and management of sustainable environmental quality and
ecosystem integrity.
Discovering weeds before they become well - established is critical to reducing damage to
ecosystem integrity, preventing the loss of habitat for rare plants and animals, and preventing costly natural resource management.
The next step in the negotiations will set the stage for countries to give substance to the Paris Agreement's references to the protection of human rights, the rights of indigenous peoples and
ecosystem integrity.
First, human rights, the rights of indigenous peoples and
ecosystem integrity were not included in the 1992 Convention or the Kyoto Protocol.
At an intersessional meeting in Geneva in February 2015, provisions on human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples were incorporated in the negotiating text, but
ecosystem integrity was omitted in relation to mitigation actions (with text inserted only in the adaptation section).
Some are disappointed that references to human rights and
ecosystem integrity are not included in the operative text.
Since the 2014 Lima meeting of the Conference of the Parties, the Philippines had been pushing hard for the inclusion of human rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, and
ecosystem integrity in the Paris Agreement.
Even more thrilling is that in accepting this navigation tool Parties didn't forget about «the Great Eight» — the eight rights - related dimensions in the Paris Agreement preamble: human rights, indigenous peoples» rights, public participation, gender, just transition,
ecosystem integrity and protection of biodiversity, food security, and intergenerational equity.