“Governments have failed to deliver on the commitments they made in 2002: biodiversity is still being lost as fast as ever” —Dr Stuart Butchart, BirdLife International
World leaders have failed to deliver commitments made in 2002 to reduce the global rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, and have instead overseen alarming biodiversity declines. These findings are the result of a new paper published in the leading journal Science and represent the first assessment of how the targets made through the 2002 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have not been met. Read more