The world's governments will fail to meet their agreed target of curbing biodiversity loss by 2010, according to experts questioned by BBC News. Nearly 200 countries signed up to the target in 2002. Ten leading conservationists asked here at the World Conservation Congress were unanimous that the goal cannot be met. All the global indicators of progress are heading in the wrong direction, and few governments have even translated the target into national legislation. Not all the experts questioned would go on the record, and some said there was a reluctance to embarrass governments over their failures on the matter.
The world's governments will fail to meet their agreed target of curbing biodiversity loss by 2010, according to experts questioned by BBC News.
Nearly 200 countries signed up to the target in 2002.
Ten leading conservationists asked here at the World Conservation Congress were unanimous that the goal cannot be met.
All the global indicators of progress are heading in the wrong direction, and few governments have even translated the target into national legislation.
Not all the experts questioned would go on the record, and some said there was a reluctance to embarrass governments over their failures on the matter.
If you look at wind in terms of percentage of final consumption, it looks better.
And that ignores the broader point that wind has moved from nowhere to visible in just a few years, and is now only reaching the "statistically significant" stage - but it is still keeping its nice growth rates, which means that it will rapidly claim a bigger chunk of final energy use.
EWEA conservatively estimates that 40% of new installed capacity in Europe by 2030 will be wind, just like in the current decade. That requires almost no growth in yearly installations. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
2006 are the freshest numbers I could get from Eurostat. I would love to have newer ones, but these ones to me still say daunting. Not impossible by a long shot, but needing real policy support rather than just targets.
