The UN’s efforts to save the world’s biodiversity, through its Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), have failed repeatedly. Our progress in respect of the “2010 Biodiversity Targets” (2002−2010), “Decade on Biodiversity” (2011−2020), and the “2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets” is not something to be proud of. Over the last 50 years, for example, the world has lost 35 percent of its wetlands and about 70 percent of mammals, birds and fish populations. Now, one in every eight plant and animal species are counting days to become extinct over the next few decades.
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