UN Convention on Biodiversity Proposes Protection of at Least 30 Percent of the Planet by 2030
Protecting areas of particular importance for biodiversity The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity has released its ‘zero draft’ text proposal for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Featured in the text is a target to protect at least 30% of the planet — land and sea — by 2030. The draft text is a proposed…