{"id":12023,"date":"2021-01-26T11:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T08:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=12023"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:24","slug":"scientists-launch-four-steps-for-earth-to-protect-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2021\/01\/26\/scientists-launch-four-steps-for-earth-to-protect-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists launch \u2018Four Steps for Earth\u2019 to protect biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2010, world leaders&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/nature-destruction-biodiversity-loss-un-2647682550.html\">agreed<\/a>&nbsp;to 20 targets to protect Earth&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/tag\/biodiversity\">biodiversity<\/a>&nbsp;over the next decade. By 2020, none of them had been met. Now, the question is whether the world can do any better once new targets are set during the meeting of the UN Convention on Biodiversity in Kunming, China later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help turn the tide, a group of 22 research institutions have come together to develop four steps to protect life on Earth, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/environmentjournal.online\/articles\/researchers-outline-four-key-steps-to-mitigate-climate-crisis\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Environment Journal reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The upcoming Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting, and adoption of the new Global Biodiversity Framework, represent an opportunity to transform humanity&#8217;s relationship with nature,&#8221; the researchers wrote in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/one-earth\/fulltext\/S2590-3322(20)30657-6?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2590332220306576%3Fshowall%3Dtrue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One Earth Friday<\/a>. &#8220;Restoring nature while meeting human needs requires a bold vision, including mainstreaming biodiversity&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/tag\/conservation\">conservation<\/a>&nbsp;in society.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By mainstreaming biodiversity, the researchers mean that biodiversity should be considered by everyone who makes decisions about the use of natural resources, not just specialized conservation organizations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/protecting-biodiversity-scientists-2650130684.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, world leaders&nbsp;agreed&nbsp;to 20 targets to protect Earth&#8217;s&nbsp;biodiversity&nbsp;over the next decade. By 2020, none of them had been met. Now, the question is whether the world can do any&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}