Pin Point

QUOTES PIN POINT

The young generation is a generation that has grown up with climate change and which is rightly demanding intergenerational solidarity and inclusion of their asks in policymaking. They can be effective agents of change, taking lead in addressing this planetary crisis and climate movements worldwide

Ovais Sarmad

Deputy Executive Secretary, UN

There’s a huge need to seed innovation today to invest in the new technologies we will need tomorrow if we are going to operate our global economy and support a healthy society at scale in a way that’s sustainable for the planet

Amit Boura

CEO, Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)

BUZZ

Greta Thunberg Swedish Climate Activist @GretaThunberg

The world is still expanding fossil fuel infrastructure and pouring astronomical amounts of money into destruction. We are still speeding in the wrong direction. There is indeed a long way ahead of us - but we are still here and we are not planning on going anywhere

Ibrahim Thiaw Executive Secretary UNCCD @ibrahimThiaw

I urge you to sincerely implement the G20 initiative’s target of a 50 percent reduction in degraded land by 2040, but also to make plans to exceed it in terms of timeline and scope. I urge you to invest in restoring land, so that it boosts water storage, reverses biodiversity loss, and increases food production

Achim Steiner

UNDP Administrator Unprecedented price surges mean that for many people across the world, the food that they could afford yesterday is no longer attainable today. This cost-of-living crisis is tipping millions of people into poverty and even starvation at a breathtaking speed

Assaad Razzouk CEO, Gurin Energy @assaadRazzouk

Based on the same principle that powers the stars including our own sun, a couple of nuclear reactors running on small pellets could power our planet without the risk of a catastrophic meltdown and zero greenhouse gas emissions

Urban TRIVIA

Cartoonists & Cities

The names of some cartoonists have been associated with cities. Mario Miranda for drawing Mumbai and Goa in a humorously vivid way; Paul Fernandes capturing the Bengaluru in his unique telling style; and RK Laxman covering urban woes of common man in various cities and elsewhere in his famous Times of India column

Cover Story

24 Be selfish to save urban biodiversity!

34 Inside

Volume 8, Issue 5 September 2022

Numerograph Leaderspeak

28 BIodiversity & Urban eco-system 30 Where have Sparrows gone?

32 Conservation of Urban Biodiversity in India

34 Biodiversity: A vision towards sustainability 42 NCUBC calls for action on Urban Biodiversity, releases Indore declaration

36 Role of ULBs paramount in biodiversity conservation in cities 44 India@75: Reminiscing past for a hopeful future

Regulars

6 Pin Point 8 Girl Power Project 12 Newscan 17 City Image 46 Urban Agenda

Event

38 1st National Conference on Urban Biodiversity held in Indore