On Monday 28 October, the United Nations Environment Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre and the International Union for Conservation of Nature called for faster action to protect 30% of the planet.
The two organisations published the ‘Protected Planet Report 2024’, on the sidelines of COP16 in Cali. It states that 17.6% of the world's land and inland waters and 8.4% of its oceans and coastal areas are in “protected and conserved areas”.
The report is the first...