Tories will not reach ‘embarrassingly poor’ nature targets by 2030, Labour says

Old Ralph’s Cross and peat bog on Westerdale Moor, North York Moors national park. Photograph: Mike Kipling Photography/Alamy

The government will not be able to achieve its nature targets by 2030, even though they are “embarrassingly poor”, the shadow environment minister and leading wildlife groups have said.

Next week at the Cop15 biodiversity conference in Montreal, Alex Sobel will be discussing Labour’s “science-led, joined-up plan to tackle the climate and ecological emergency”. The plan will aim to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, rather than simply halting it, which is the government’s current target.