World fails to meet a single target to stop destruction of nature – UN report
theguardian.com
theguardian.com
> From tackling pollution to protecting coral reefs, the international community did not fully achieve any of the 20 Aichi biodiversity targets agreed in Japan in 2010 to slow the loss of the natural world. It is the second consecutive decade that governments have failed to meet targets.
Though this is a bit better:
> The 20 Aichi biodiversity targets are broken down into 60 separate elements to monitor overall progress. Of those, seven have been achieved, 38 have shown progress and 13 elements have shown no progress. Progress remains unknown for two elements.
It seems like conservation of "vital biodiversity areas" is improving, but the situation for marine ecosystems is not improving (with regard to overfishing, coastal development, pollution, or climate change/ocean acidification). Marine ecosystem preservation seems like a tragedy of the commons issue, and this is the result. The lands in your nation are directly yours and there can be national movements to improve them. But the oceans are everyone's, in the sense that they can be harmed by any nation's inability to curb pollution, overfishing, etc. Eg 10 rivers as the source of 88 - 95% of all plastic in the ocean[0].
Enviromment and the ecosystems are like ecomosists like to says externlaities.