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Main Milestones
2017
The Ocean Conference
2015
Addis Ababa Action Agenda
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Paris Agreement
2014
SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway
2013
High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
2012
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, RIO +20: the Future We Want
2010
Five-year review of the Mauritius Strategy of Implementation: MSI+5
2005
BPOA+10: Mauritius Strategy of Implementation
2002
World Summit on Sustainable (WSSD) Rio+10: Johannesburg Plan of Implementation
1999
Bardados Programme of Action (BPOA)+5
1997
UNGASS -19: Earth Summit +5
1994
Bardados Programme of Action (BPOA)
1993
Start of CSD
1992
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Agenda 21
1987
Our Common Future
1972
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Conference)
Creation of UNEP
The Youth Guide to Biodiversity
FAO, 2012
Welcome to planet Earth, whose inhabitants include chameleons, who can see in two different directions at the same time, insects without EYELIDS and elephants with their great sense of smell.

These are just a few examples. The variety of animals and plants on Earth is truly wondrous. Moreover, its diverse ecosystems, such as deserts, oceans, rivers, mountains, marshlands, forests, and grassy plains are specifically suited to the creatures and plants that live there. But changes to an ecosystem’s environment can spell doom for its native plants and animals, and unfortunately, this is happening all too fast today. Many species are at risk of disappearing entirely. While extinction has always happened as a natural part of a gradual evolutionary process, the current rate of extinction of animals and plants is thought to be hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of times faster than that brought about by natural evolutionary processes.

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