{"id":69328,"date":"2020-09-16T20:53:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/world-isnt-meeting-biodiversity-goals-un-report-finds\/"},"modified":"2020-09-16T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:53:09","slug":"world-isnt-meeting-biodiversity-goals-un-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/world-isnt-meeting-biodiversity-goals-un-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"#World isn\u2019t meeting biodiversity goals, UN report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#World isn\u2019t meeting biodiversity goals, UN report finds<\/strong>”
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\n A decade-long global effort to save Earth\u2019s disapp<\/a>earing 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.<\/p>\n

In 2010, more than 150 countries agreed to goals<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Six of those 20 goals were \u201cpartially achieved,\u201d and the rest were not.<\/p>\n

If this were a school and these were tests, the world has flunked, said Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, executive secretary of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity<\/a>, which released the report.<\/p>\n

Inger Andersen, who leads the U.N. environment program, called it a global failure.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom COVID-19 to massive wildfires, floods, melting glaciers and unprecedented heat, our failure to meet the Aichi (biodiversity) targets \u2014 protect our our home \u2014 has very real consequences,\u201d Andersen said. \u201cWe can no longer afford to cast nature to the side.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a Tuesday interview with The Associated Press, former U.N. Secretary-General<\/a> Ban Ki-Moon connected the problems to \u201ca lack of global partnership and political leadership.\u201d He said multilateralism has been under attack, citing the United States\u2019 withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement as an example.<\/p>\n

The U.N. team and report authors said the study is not meant to stoke despair, but to galvanize governments to take stronger actions over the next decade to protect the diversity of life.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome progress has been made, but inadequate progress. A lot still needs to be done,\u201d Mrema said. \u201cThe key is to get the political will and the commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duke University ecologist Stuart Pimm, who was not involved in the new report, said it\u2019s good that countries are getting together to examine their biodiversity goals but some of the targets are nebulous. Reducing \u201ceverything on the planet to single scores\u201d obscures the fact that the picture may look different in different places, he said.<\/p>\n

For years, conservation activists have used the polar bear as a poster child for species in trouble \u2014 especially those threatened by climate change, which the report connects to biodiversity loss. But Mrema and lead author David Cooper said the world should think about a different poster animal: humans.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of things civilizations depend on are certainly threatened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The report was originally slated to be released at a U.N. conference to set biodiversity targets for the next decade, but the event in Kunming, China, was postponed until next year due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Last week, the World Wide Fund for Nature released new research detailing how monitored populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish have declined, on average, 68%, between 1970 and 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith pandemic deaths surging and wildfires raging across the entire West Coast, never have the consequences of our misuse and abuse of the natural world been more clear,\u201d said Julia Baum, a biologist at Canada\u2019s University of Victoria who wasn\u2019t part of the report.<\/p>\n

As countries prepare to restart their economies after combating the coronavirus, there\u2019s an opportunity to do better \u2014 or much worse \u2014 for the planet, Cooper said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome countries are relaxing environmental regulations, but others are investing in a green recovery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

One of the challenges in meeting global biodiversity targets is a mismatch between countries with abundant natural assets \u2014 such as large tracts of intact tropical forests \u2014 and those with money to enforce protections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biodiversity hotspots tend to be in poorer countries,\u201d and wealthy countries need to be willing to provide financial or practical support to help other nations, Cooper said.<\/p>\n

Dalhousie University marine biologist Boris Worm, who also wasn\u2019t part of the report, said the world is at a crossroads.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still have the chance to save most of the world\u2019s endangered species and vulnerable ecosystems,\u201d Worm said. \u201cNow we face a historic choice to either seize this opportunity, and rebuild what has been lost, or to let the world\u2019s species slide further into oblivion.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said it\u2019s striking that Earth\u2019s biodiversity took millions of years to evolve, \u201cyet we could destroy much of it in a matter of decades \u2014 or safeguard it for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s our choice,\u201d he added.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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