The agreement is aimed at upgrading, modernizing and organizing Latin American & Caribbean laws to face new challenges, changes and threats to ecosystems urging the international community to preserve and protect natural areas and habitats of indigenous peoples and communities threatened by illegal exploitation by large multinationals and to ask the United Nations (UN) to declare the planet in a state of environmental emergency as a matter of urgency.
The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ... published in 2007 ... signaled natural phenomena as threatening the existence of the planet, with events such as increased heatwaves, hurricanes, droughts, floods, polar ice cap melting and the disappearance of species and ecosystems.
The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have undertaken to comply with the guidelines and principles of various international conferences on the environment and have incorporated them into domestic legislation as part of that commitment.
2008 will mark a special milestone in environmental matters to be declared by the United Nations Organization for Education, Scientific & Cultural Development (Unesco) as the International Year of Planet Earth at the same time as Venezuela will celebrate the 50th anniversart of the declaration of the El Avila mountain as a protected National Park.
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