A sea of broken promises: Avoiding empty ocean commitments at Rio+20
Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 13:00
in Earth & Climate
RIO: World leaders have made pitiful progress on their guarantee to protect global oceans from overfishing and other threats. In a paper published today (June 15, 2012) in Science, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and world renowned researchers have reviewed commitments made by governments to protect the world's oceans and shown that there has been little success over the past 20 years.