Posted on 09/15/2020 9:34:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A decade-long global effort to save Earths disappearing species and declining ecosystems has mostly stumbled, with fragile habitats like coral reefs and tropical forests in more trouble than ever, researchers said in a report Tuesday.
In 2010, more than 150 countries agreed to goals to protect nature, but the new United Nations scorecard found that the world has largely failed to meet 20 different targets to safeguard species and ecosystems.
Six of those 20 goals were partially achieved, and the rest were not. [ ]
Inger Andersen, who leads the U.N. environment program, called it a global failure.
From COVID-19 to massive wildfires, floods, melting glaciers and unprecedented heat, our failure to meet the Aichi (biodiversity) targets protect our our home has very real consequences, Andersen said. We can no longer afford to cast nature to the side.
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Ask them what the solution is and they call you a racist.
They might have discovered an ‘extinct’ thylacine in Tasmania a few years ago. I believe that the Ivory-Billed is alive, too.
"there is a vaccine for this."
Gates wife looks more like a husband to me...
LOLOL!!
Scary how the left illustration seems to represent reality better.
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