The world has made lacklustre progress in meeting most of the commitments it made 20 years ago to safeguard the oceans, says a report.
At the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, agreements were made on issues such as sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, capacity building, and biodiversity; later, the Johannesburg Summit in 2002 in South Africa set targets and timetables to achieve those goals.
But a report entitled 'Oceans at Rio+20' has rated both the effort and the achievements to date in protecting oceans and meeting these commitments as 'low to medium'.
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