The agreement covers 20 goals to be achieved by 2020 and include:
• Cut the rate of loss of natural habitats, including forests, by at least half
• Increase terrestrial nature reserves from 13% to 17% of the world’s land area
• Increase marine and coastal nature reserves from 1% to 10% of the world’s seas
• Restore at least 15% of the areas where biodiversity is classed as ‘degraded’
• Safeguard at least 75% of threatened plant species in collections
If they're fully implemented it would be a big step towards us handing over a viable planet to future generations. That's a big "if" though. So far we've not had a good record on these sort of agreements: All the Kyoto signatories are likely to miss their carbon cutting targets come 2012 (some by miles); and the 2010 biodiversity targets have been failed miserably.
So, all we can hope is that the world's governments have finally got the idea. This is no longer simply a 'green issue'. This is way bigger than that.
• Increase terrestrial nature reserves from 13% to 17% of the world’s land area
• Increase marine and coastal nature reserves from 1% to 10% of the world’s seas
• Restore at least 15% of the areas where biodiversity is classed as ‘degraded’
• Safeguard at least 75% of threatened plant species in collections
If they're fully implemented it would be a big step towards us handing over a viable planet to future generations. That's a big "if" though. So far we've not had a good record on these sort of agreements: All the Kyoto signatories are likely to miss their carbon cutting targets come 2012 (some by miles); and the 2010 biodiversity targets have been failed miserably.
So, all we can hope is that the world's governments have finally got the idea. This is no longer simply a 'green issue'. This is way bigger than that.
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