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‘We’re not moving fast enough’: World falling short of promised 30% land and water goals ahead of UN biodiversity summit
Countries in Montreal committed to protect 30% of land and water considered important for biodiversity by 2030, a goal known as 30x30.
Efforts to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to preserve the world’s oceans, forests, rivers, lakes and other parts of the natural world have fallen short ahead of a key U.N. summit on biodiversity. The yawning gap between the stated ambition of nations to protect biodiversity and what money has been raised will be a central topic in Yerevan, Armenia, when the biodiversity conference, known as COP17, gets started on Monday. The nearly two-week event, scheduled to end Oct. 30, is a chance for nearly 200 countries that are part of the treaty to take stock of their progress on 23 global targets after agreeing to a historic…
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