The innaugral state of the tropics report was launched on 29th June 2014, as the culmination of a collaboration between twelve leading tropical research institutions. The report offers a unique perspective on this increasingly important region. Marking the anniversary of the report's launch the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/70/267 in 2016, which declared that 29th June of each year is to be observed as the lnternational Day of the Tropics. The lnternational Day of the Tropics was designated to raise awareness to the specific challenges faced by tropical areas, the far reaching implications of the issues affecting the world's tropical zone and the need, at all levels, to raise awareness and to underline the important role that countries in the tropics will play in achieving the sustainable development goals. The lnternational Day of the Tropics celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the Tropics while highlighting unique challenges and opportunities nations of the tropics face. It provides an opportunity to take stock of progress across the tropics, to share tropical stories and expertise and to acknowledge the diversity and potential of the region.
The tropics account for 40% of the world's total surface area and are the host to approximately 80% of the world's biodiversity. By 2050, tropics will host most of the world's population and two-thirds of it will be children. The proportion of the urban population living in slums is higher in the tropics than in other parts of the globe. More people experience undernourishment in the tropics in comparison to the rest of the world. An estimate says that around 40% of the world's population lives in these regions of the world. The extreme temperature has a drastic effect on the species present in these regions, including plants and animals.
The tropics host nearly 95% of the world's mangrove forests by area and 99% of mangrove species. The tropics have just over half of the world's renewable water resources (54%), yet almost half their population is considered vulnerable to water stress. Let's save the planet and ensures sustainable production and consumption.
Tropics are common around the equator, and part of North America, South America, Asia, Australia and Africa. The most tropical countries are lndia, lndonesia and Brazil. The tropics are a region of the earth, roughly defined as the area between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn. Although topography and other factors contribute to climatic variation, tropical locations are typically warm and experience little seasonal change in day to day temperature. An important feature of the tropics is the prevalence of rain in the moist inner regions near the equator, and that the seasonality of rainfall increases with the distance from the equator. The tropical region faces several challenges such as climate change, deforestation, logging, urbanization and demographic changes. Biodiversity is greater in the tropics - however, loss of biodiversity is also greater in the tropics than in the rest of the world. The tropics are home to a diverse ecosystem of plants and wildlife but are vulnerable to climate changes and deforestation. Let's do our part to keep this earth green for future generations to come.
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A BRIEF PERSONAL BACKGROUND OF MR. ENOBONG EKWERE (ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST ) IN NIGERIA.
Comrade Enobong Ekwere is a social influencer, blogger, vlogger, climate activist, peace practitioner, SDGs advocate, grassroot social mobilizer and a global citizen. He is the program manager of children and young people living for peace (CYPLP), an organic, voluntary, youth focused and a think-tank non-governmental organization based in Kaduna state, Nigeria. A Higher National Diploma (HND) graduate of Public Administration (Upper Credit) level from the Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Niger State, Nigeria. Enobong Ekwere holds a proficiency certificate in management from the Nigerian Institute of Management, Chartered (NIM) Lagos, Nigeria. He is also a graduate member of the institute (Associate member in view). He works with young people in local communities across Nigeria localizing the sustainable development goals (SDGs), SDG13, 14 and 15 in particular and positive peace frameworks in Nigeria, accelerating action online and offline, engaging duty bearers and policy makers to be accountable for it's implementation by 2030. Enobong Ekwere is a strong advocate of good governance and democracy, accountability in government, freedom of information, access to information, free press, social justice and social inclusion. As a youth advocate and a global leader who loves to see social reforms in the society, he uses his personalized blog to write compelling stories on developmental issues on national and global concern that shapes and transform people's lives and impact the larger society for knowledge transfer and lifelong learning. He engages in community service and volunteerism, community outreach, social mobilization and advocacy tours to hard to reach local communities in Nigeria advocating and advancing the cause of the SDGs and SDG13, 14 and 15 in particular so that no community and youth in Kaduna State and Nigeria at large would be left behind. CYPLP as an organization works primarily in serving vulnerable population of children, youth and women in unserved, underserved, underrepresented and marginalized local communities in Nigeria.
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