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Monday, January 13, 2020
UN draft plan sets 2030 target to avert Earth's sixth mass extinction
Almost a third of the world’s oceans and land should be protected by
the end of the decade to stop and reverse biodiversity decline that
risks the survival of humanity, according to a draft Paris-style UN
agreement on nature. To combat what scientists have described as
the sixth mass extinction event in Earth’s history, the proposal sets a
2030 deadline for the conservation and restoration of ecosystems and
wildlife that perform crucial services for humans. The text,
drafted by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, is expected to be
adopted by governments in October at a crucial UN summit in the Chinese
city of Kunming. It comes after countries largely failed to meet
targets for the previous decade agreed in Aichi, Japan, in 2010. As well as calling for a commitment to protect at least 30% of the
planet, the 20-point draft plan, which has been likened to the 2015
Paris agreement on the climate crisis, aims to introduce controls on
invasive species and reduce pollution from plastic waste and excess
nutrients by 50%. The draft text has been welcomed by environmental campaigners, who have
called on governments to treat the targets outlined in the accord as the
minimum acceptable level for which to aim...MORE
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