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The world set a 2020 deadline to save nature but not a single target was met, UN report says

In 2010, leaders from 196 countries gathered in Japan and agreed on a list of goals designed to save the Earth.

 

The Aichi Biodiversity Targets laid out a 10-year plan to conserve the world's biodiversity, promote sustainability, and protect ecosystems. The targets were ambitious, but crucial. One, for instance, aimed to prevent the extinction of threatened species and improve their status by 2020.

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