Ecosystem degradation puts global development goals at risk: UN report

Xinhua News Agency | March 30, 2005 | Copyright

NAIROBI, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Degradation of ecosystem has reached an alarming rate, posing the biggest barrier to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a United Nations (UN) report warned Wednesday.

"Any progress achieved in addressing the goals of poverty and hunger eradication, improved health and environmental protection is unlikely to be sustained if most of the ecosystem services on which humanity relies continue to be degraded," said the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Report released in ...

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