Still Losing Ground
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10092320.stm
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The world's governments will not meet their internationally-agreed target of curbing the loss of species and nature by 2010, a major study has confirmed.
Virtually all species and ecosystems show continued decline, while pressures on nature are increasing, it concludes.
Published in the journal Science, the study confirms what conservationists have known for several years.
The 2010 target was adopted in 2002, but the scientists behind this study say implementation has been "woeful".
"Our analysis shows that governments have failed to deliver on the commitments they made in 2002," said research leader Stuart Butchart, from the UN Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre (Unep-WCMC) and BirdLife International.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10092320.stm
Virtually all species and ecosystems show continued decline, while pressures on nature are increasing, it concludes.
Published in the journal Science, the study confirms what conservationists have known for several years.
The 2010 target was adopted in 2002, but the scientists behind this study say implementation has been "woeful".
"Our analysis shows that governments have failed to deliver on the commitments they made in 2002," said research leader Stuart Butchart, from the UN Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre (Unep-WCMC) and BirdLife International.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10092320.stm
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Saladin
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International cooperation is based on international consensus.
To put it simply, countries never agree to do things they don't already actually -want- to do. Meaning that if we actually cared about fixing the ecosystem, we'd already have done it and fostering international cooperation on the issue would just be an afterthought.
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