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Convention ends with new biodiversity roadmap
After two weeks of talks and much late-night wrangling, delegates to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan, reached agreement on a new roadmap for protecting biodiversity (). The agreement seeks to reduce biodiversity loss by expanding protected areas on land and in the oceans while creating a new framework for managing genetic resources – and sharing any economic benefits that stem from their exploitation – with developing nations.
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