Nations agree to push to get nature goals on track

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Nearly 200 nations on Friday adopted hard-fought agreements at a UN biodiversity summit aimed at getting the world on course to halt the destruction of nature by 2030.
50% : Science under attack Efforts to refine the lacklustre Cali Fund -- a UN mechanism for sharing profits from corporations that use genetic data from plants and other organisms -- also proved difficult.
49% : Nations have also feuded over key scientific reports, with a small handful of countries accused of stonewalling efforts to accept the benchmark findings of a UN-backed biodiversity body.
41% : But ahead of the summit, the UN warned that countries would fail to meet the goal unless they urgently correct course.
38% : 'Weak terms' During negotiations, countries wrangled over reforming subsidies and other incentives that encourage activities harmful to nature, such as fossil fuels, intensive agriculture and overfishing.
35% : The EU led a charge for wealthy emerging economies such as China to contribute to global conservation efforts, a contentious issue at COP17.

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