UN delegates reach agreement at biodiversity convention
NOV 01, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024791
New York Times : Although earlier last week, talks at the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity did not appear to be going well, by early Saturday morning, delegates representing about 190 countries reached an ambitious agreement. Called the Nagoya Protocol, it sets several goals: To cut the current extinction rate by half or more by 2020; to increase the amount of protected land to 17% from the current 12.5%, and protected oceans to 10% from less than 1%; and to prevent resource exploitation in developing countries by richer nations. Thomas Lovejoy, who represented the United Nations Foundation at the conference, said the agreement took “significant steps to heal the living planet.”
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