{"id":86741,"date":"2019-04-23T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T08:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2019-04-23T14:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T08:53:20","slug":"earth-day-saving-the-planet-may-cost-100-billion-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/earth-day-saving-the-planet-may-cost-100-billion-per-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day: saving the planet may cost $100 billion per year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Scientists\nhave proposed a time-bound, science-based policy, titled \u201cA Global Deal for\nNature (GDN)\u201d, to save the diversity and abundance of life on Earth. The study\nhas been published in the journal <em>Science\nAdvances.<\/em><\/li><li>The policy\u2019s mission is to save the diversity\nand abundance of life on Earth\u2014for the price tag of $100 billion a year. <\/li><li>The first major goal of GDN is to protect\nbiodiversity by conserving at least 30% of the Earth&#8217;s surface under the UN\nConvention on Biological Diversity by 2030. However, as much more of Earth\u2019s\nnatural ecosystems need to be preserved or restored in order to avert impacts of\nglobal warming, GDN calls to protect another 20% of the Earth as Climate\nStabilization Areas (CSAs).<\/li><li>Secondly, GDN aims to mitigate climate change by\nconserving the Earth&#8217;s natural carbon storehouses.<\/li><li>Thirdly, it seeks to reduce major threats such\nas meeting 2050 world food demand by directing cropland expansion to degraded\nlands and reducing food waste; or reduce use of plastics or ecologically\ndamaging toxins etc.<\/li><li>Conservation scientists, environmental NGOs have\nurged governments to adopt the GDN as a companion commitment alongside the\nParis Climate Agreement. The Paris agreement (2015), an international agreement\nseeks to combat climate change and accelerate the actions and investments\nneeded for a sustainable low carbon future.<\/li><li>The GDN campaign is being driven by One Earth,\nan initiative of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. The foundation seeks to organize\nsupport from international institutions, governments, and citizens globally to\nsupport ambitious conservation goals. One Earth has launched an online petition\ndrive to build popular support for GDN.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have proposed a time-bound, science-based policy, titled \u201cA Global Deal for Nature (GDN)\u201d, to save the diversity and abundance of life on Earth. The study has been published in the journal Science Advances. The policy\u2019s mission is to save the diversity and abundance of life on Earth\u2014for the price tag of $100 billion a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/earth-day-saving-the-planet-may-cost-100-billion-per-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Earth Day: saving the planet may cost $100 billion per year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4342,4300],"class_list":["post-86741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-a-global-deal-for-nature","tag-civil-society-against-climate-change","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704812746},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}