Article 6RWAY Alarm grows over ‘disturbing’ lack of progress to save nature at Cop16

Alarm grows over ‘disturbing’ lack of progress to save nature at Cop16

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Patrick Greenfield in Cali
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Fears raised that biodiversity summit not addressing countries' failure to meet a single target to stem destruction of natural world

Governments risk another decade of failure on biodiversity loss, due to the slow implementation of an international agreement to halt the destruction of Earth's ecosystems, experts have warned.

Less than two years ago, the world reached a historic agreement at the Cop15 summit in Montreal to stop the human-caused destruction of life on our planet. The deal included targets to protect 30% of the planet for nature by the end of the decade (30x30), reform $500bn (then 410bn) of environmentally damaging subsidies, and begin restoring 30% of the planet's degraded ecosystems.

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