Report: UN '30 x 30' nature target won't be achieved for world's oceans until 2107

Stuart Stone
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Key UN ocean target to be missed by eight decades as campaigners claim nature's 'perilous state' has never been more obvious

At the current rate of progress, the United Nations' '30x30' nature target to protect 30 per cent of land and sea by 2030 agreed by all governments at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit will not be achieved...

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