TAP supports United Nations Green Wave initiative

United Nations designated 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. TAP is supporting the UN Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity to promote its Green Wave Initiative.

The Green Wave is a global biodiversity campaign to educate young people worldwide about the crucial role biodiversity plays in our lives. Through this initiative they are encouraged to celebrate life on earth and in particular at 10:00 am on May 22 – the International Day of Biodiversity. The idea is to create a wave of awareness and activity as the celebration passes through the world’s time zones, from east to west around the world.

What is biodiversity precisely?

Biodiversity is the wide variety of life on Earth and the genetic differences within each species. It also includes the variety of ecosystems in which living creatures, including humans, form a community, interacting with one another.

Why to support the Green Wave?

Biodiversity loss and climate change are today big environmental challenges. Aviation sector is responsible for 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions while deforestation is estimated to be responsible for around 12% to 17%.

Deforestation of rain forests also is the main cause for the global threat to biodiversity. So, when we tackle climate change, we must address deforestation and thus biodiversity at the same time.

More than half the Earth's original rain forests have been destroyed, two-thirds of our ecosystem is in an advanced state of destruction and species extinction is running at 1,000 times the natural rate.

TAP is committed to tackle climate change by minimizing its carbon dioxide emissions and has made major investments in improving its energy and operating efficiency. We are supporting United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity through its environment programme (UNEP) as a proper forum to address the biodiversity global challenge. To find out more about the Green Wave Initiative, please click here.

United Nations designated 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. TAP is supporting the UN Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity to promote its Green Wave Initiative.

The Green Wave is a global biodiversity campaign to educate young people worldwide about the crucial role biodiversity plays in our lives. Through this initiative they are encouraged to celebrate life on earth and in particular at 10:00 am on May 22 – the International Day of Biodiversity. The idea is to create a wave of awareness and activity as the celebration passes through the world’s time zones, from east to west around the world.

What is biodiversity precisely?

Biodiversity is the wide variety of life on Earth and the genetic differences within each species. It also includes the variety of ecosystems in which living creatures, including humans, form a community, interacting with one another.

Why to support the Green Wave?

Biodiversity loss and climate change are today big environmental challenges. Aviation sector is responsible for 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions while deforestation is estimated to be responsible for around 12% to 17%.

Deforestation of rain forests also is the main cause for the global threat to biodiversity. So, when we tackle climate change, we must address deforestation and thus biodiversity at the same time.

More than half the Earth's original rain forests have been destroyed, two-thirds of our ecosystem is in an advanced state of destruction and species extinction is running at 1,000 times the natural rate.

TAP is committed to tackle climate change by minimizing its carbon dioxide emissions and has made major investments in improving its energy and operating efficiency. We are supporting United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity through its environment programme (UNEP) as a proper forum to address the biodiversity global challenge.

To find out more about the Green Wave Initiative, please click here.