 ecosystem loss is disastrous forests and mangroves are shrinking wetlands are disappearing we are only as healthy as our ecosystems people and the planet depend on them migrants lives and livelihoods rely on them climate change and environmental degradation are the defining issues of our time climate change affects how when and where people migrate worldwide there is no region in the world that has avoided population movements linked to adverse climate impacts on World Environment Day I joined the voices of UN leaders to launch the UN decade on ecosystem restoration to achieve the sustainable development goals to implement the Paris Agreement and the global compact for migration to prevent forced migration and displacement we need to build back better after the COVID-19 pandemic let's revive our damaged ecosystems together we can be generation restoration for people and for nature