Make climate action a habit - Sue Vella

Climate change is an issue we urgently need to address and the United Nations has this year chosen ‘Families and Climate Change’ as its theme for International Day of Families being marked today.

Intended to recognise families’ important role in social, environmental and economic development, the UN’s themes tend to be chosen from among its Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by world leaders in September 2015 to encourage all countries to accelerate their efforts to end poverty, fight inequality and help protect the environment over a 15-year period.

Climate change is a global challenge and needs a global response from us all. 

This clarion call emerged just last week when the UN released its Global Assessment Report warning that one million species were threatened with extinction.

This three-year global assessment of nature, which was compiled by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, laid bare the devastating impact humans are having on nature.

This is the starkest report yet and makes compulsory, if alarming reading. 

Forests are diminishing rapidly; the area of natural ecosystems has almost halved and nature everywhere is...