Developed Nations Pledge to Double Biodiversity Aidby Erik Stokstad on 22 October 2012, 4:35 PM

Two years after setting targets in Aichi, Japan, for saving global biodiversity, the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity has struck its first deal on how to pay for the goals. At a meeting in Hyderabad, India, rich nations agreed to double their aid to developing nations by 2015, a move welcomed by conservation organizations. "This will give the Aichi Biodiversity Targets the necessary push," said Carolina Hazin, BirdLife's global biodiversity policy coordinator in a statement.

But the new amount of aid—$10 billion a year—falls far short of the order of magnitude increase in total funding scientists say is required to do the job. "The deal reached on financing … is a disappointing result, because it is not nearly enough money to reach the ambitious targets to protect biodiversity," said Lasse Gustavsson, WWF International's executive director of conservation in a statement.

Several developing nations also pledged to boost their own biodiversity spending, including $50 million from India. "The fact that India made a financial commitment at national and international level sets a precedent for other emerging economies to offer more support to global biodiversity conservation," Gustavsson said.

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