We're Utterly Failing Our Environmental Pledges Made 20 Years Ago in Rio, Scientists Report. Mark Wallace/CC BY 2.0 Underscoring the sobering words of the groups such as the Zoological Society of London and author-activists such as George Monbiot, that we're collectively rushing down a path towards ecological collapse, global eco-summits be damned, is a new piece in Nature (h/t Mongabay).
In it scientists grade nations and world leaders on how well we've lived up to the pledges and treaties signed at the 1992 Earth Summit. With few exceptions, we're failing, badly. Under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the main assignment being to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions, Nature gives us an F. Ocean life on the brink of mass extinctions: study. Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature!