BBC: A major UN meeting aimed at finding solutions to the world's nature crisis opens on Monday in Japan. Species are going extinct at 100-1,000 times the natural rate, key habitat is disappearing, and ever more water and land is being used to support people. Some economists say this is already damaging human prosperity. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting will discuss why governments failed to curb these trends by 2010, as they pledged in ......
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UN Japan forum ‘key time’ to solve global nature crisis
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 17th, 2010
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