Risk of extinction highlighted in draft UN report after Earth Day

One million species risk extinction due to humans, a draft UN report has revealed. UN's draft report comes after the intergovernmental organization market International Mother Earth Day debating how best to build "an equitable and sustainable future" for all, through enhanced education and climate action, on the road to a key international summit on the issue due to take place in September.

Billed officially as an Interactive Dialogue on Harmony with Nature, the UN General Assembly session involved the Member States and top officials discussing the need to take urgent action against the pace of global warming, in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, to keep carbon dioxide emissions to well-below two degrees Celsius.

"Climate change is one of the largest threats to sustainable development globally," said the concept note prepared for the General Assembly meeting, "and is just one of many imbalances caused by the unsustainable actions of humankind, with direct implications for future generations."