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Measuring protection of the world’s rivers

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McGill Newsroom

Publication Date
2016-11-11

To what extent are the world’s rivers protected? In 2010, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), an international treaty for the conservation of biodiversity, set a 17% target for the protection of ‘inland waters,’ including rivers. But there was a problem: there was no good way to measure progress toward that target.

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