International Day for Biological Diversity

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{{Short description|Day for the promotion of biodiversity}}

Image:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg seen from Apollo 17. The first International Day for Biological Diversity was celebrated 28 years after the mission.]]

The International Day for Biological Diversity (or World Biodiversity Day) is a United Nations–sanctioned international day for the promotion of biodiversity issues. It is currently held on May 22.{{cite web|title=Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) page for IBD |url=http://www.cbd.int/idb/|access-date=April 21, 2011}}

The International Day for Biological Diversity falls within the scope of the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals. In this larger initiative of international cooperation, the topic of biodiversity concerns stakeholders in sustainable agriculture; desertification, land degradation and drought; water and sanitation; health and sustainable development; energy; science, technology and innovation, knowledge-sharing and capacity-building; urban resilience and adaptation; sustainable transport; climate change and disaster risk reduction; oceans and seas; forests; vulnerable groups including indigenous peoples; and food security.{{Cite web|title = Compendium of TST (Technical Support Team) Issues Briefs |url = https://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/1554TST_compendium_issues_briefs_rev1610.pdf&embedded=true|website = docs.google.com|access-date = May 21, 2015}} The critical role of biodiversity in sustainable development was recognized in a Rio+20 outcome document, “The World We Want: A Future for All”.{{Cn|date=May 2023}}

From its creation by the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly in 1993 until 2000, it was held on December 29 to celebrate the day the Convention on Biological Diversity went into effect. On December 20, 2000,{{cite journal

|author= Victor Giurgiu

|author-link= Victor Giurgiu

|title= Simpozionul "Biodiversitatea pădurilor din România", dedicat "Zilei Internaționale a Biodiversității"

|language= ro

|journal= Revista pădurilor

|issn= 1583-7890

|volume= 126

|issue= 3–4

|pages= 104–106

|date= Sep 2011

|url= http://www.revistapadurilor.ro/(1)Colectia-pe-ani/(16714)anul-2011/(16738)nr-3-4-2011/(16749)Cronica/(16753)Simpozionul-Biodiversitatea-padurilor-din-Romania-dedicat-Zilei-Internationale-a-Biodiversitatii

|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140522142342/http://www.revistapadurilor.ro/(1)Colectia-pe-ani/(16714)anul-2011/(16738)nr-3-4-2011/(16749)Cronica/(16753)Simpozionul-Biodiversitatea-padurilor-din-Romania-dedicat-Zilei-Internationale-a-Biodiversitatii

|id= 16753

|access-date= May 30, 2012

|archive-date= May 22, 2014

}} The date was shifted to commemorate the adoption of the Convention on May 22, 1992, at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, and partly to avoid the many other holidays that occur in late December.{{cite web|title=The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment |url=https://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.html |access-date=May 22, 2020 }}