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HOW PEOPLE CAME
TOGETHER FOR NATURE
JANUARY
Environmental, development and business
organizations join a call for an apex global
nature-positive goal for the coming decade.

MARCH
People from a record-breaking 190 countries
and territories take part in WWF's Earth Hour,
one of the world's largest grassroots
environmental movements and for the first
time ever this year 100% virtual; calls for action
on the climate and nature crises generate
over 4.7 billion social media impressions.

APRIL
More than 800 civil society organizations,
including WWF, support calls on the UN
Human Rights Council to recognize the right
to a healthy environment.

AUGUST
Young people from all backgrounds around the
world, including the WWF-backed Youth for Our
Planet network, launch a youth manifesto and
open letter calling for action to restore nature.

SEPTEMBER
WWF's Living Planet Report provides shocking
new evidence of decline in wildlife populations

Leaders Event for Nature and People
in September by over 80 heads of state
and government, together with the
President of the EU, representing more
than 1.3 billion people and over a quarter
of global GDP. Countries endorsing the
pledge committed to reverse nature
loss by 2030 - highlighting the level of
ambition needed in the UN Conventions
on biodiversity and on climate, now
scheduled in 2021. See the latest
information on endorsements at
www.leaderspledgefornature.org

WATCH WORLD
LEADERS PLEDGE TO
TAKE ACTION

and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's
Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report reveals that
the world is not on course to fully meet any of its
decade-long Aichi biodiversity targets; over 500
businesses, 50 faith-based organizations and 20
humanitarian and development organizations,
along with environmental organizations, youth
and Indigenous voices, and cities, all make
simultaneous calls for action to governments;
and over 80 heads of state and government,
together with the EU President,
sign the Leaders' Pledge for
Nature to reverse nature
loss by 2030.

Shrinking sea ice in the
Arctic is striking evidence of
the need for global action on
climate and nature.

© Shutterstock / Ritesh Chaudhary / WWF, inset © WWF International / James Noah Sparkman

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