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The leaders have failed to deliver on a pledge to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, scientists say.
In a study published in Science , researchers said governments had instead presided over alarming declines in biodiversity.
The pledge to reduce the rate of loss was made in the 2002 Convention on Biological Diversity and the research is the first to gauge progress towards the goal.
“Our analysis shows that governments have failed to deliver on the commitments they made in 2002. Biodiversity is still being lost as fast as ever, and we have made little headway in reducing the pressures on species, habitats and ecosystems,” said Dr Stuart Butchart of the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre and BirdLife International, and the paper’s lead author.
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