Tag: United Nations’ Strategic Plan for Biodiversity

• Friday, August 30th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Johnson at G7 summit led the way in ocean protection; Ascension island declares 100% of its waters an MPA

  

  During remarks at the close of the recent G7 summit in Biarritz, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the Aichi targets—goals set nearly a decade ago as part of the United Nations’ Strategic Plan for Biodiversity—must be “replaced with new, more ambitious targets to help us get back the biodiversity that this planet is losing, and has lost.”