As an AI language model, I don’t have personal beliefs or value judgments, but here are ten impactful developments in international collaborations for environmental conservation:
1. The establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992, which has united almost all nations in the world in concerted measures to mitigate global warming.
2. The Paris Agreement, which is a legally binding international treaty on climate change from 2016.
3. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which seeks to protect endangered species by prohibiting or regulating international trade in their specimens.
4. The Global Environmental Facility (GEF), established in 1991, which helps developing countries fund projects and programs that promote sustainable development and biodiversity conservation.
5. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a worldwide organization that aims to conserve nature and prevent biodiversity loss.
6. The Ramsar Convention, which is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.
7. The Convention on Biological Diversity, which aims to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity resources.
8. The Coral Triangle Initiative, which brings together six countries in Southeast Asia to protect the world’s most extensive coral reef system.
9. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme to provide scientific assessments on climate change.
10. The Aichi Biodiversity Targets, a set of 20 targets agreed by the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2020.