Every day, new evidence of our unsustainable impact on the environment. In just over 40 years, the world has witnessed 60% decline in wildlife populations across land, sea and freshwater and is heading towards a shocking fall of two-thirds by 2020. This has happened in less than two generations.s emerging.Forests are under pressure like never before, through unabated deforestation. 170 million hectares of additional deforestation will occur by 2030 – the size of Mongolia – driven by large- and small-scale livestock farming and soy and palm oil production.Our oceans are under great stress. We dump plastic and toxic chemicals into the sea, poisoning our own food. We catch fish wastefully and unsustainably, with 90% of the world’s fish stocks over fished. We've lost 50% of the world’s coral reefs in the last 30 years. In a generation, the world has lost nearly half of its marine species populations. We can’t have a prosperous future on a depleted planet, and all signs are pointing to human activity driving the Earth to the edge.
