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Summary | The
2010 target |
Programme | Background
reading | Outcomes
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In 2001, EU Heads of State and Government made a commitment
at the EU's Spring Summit in Gothenburg to 'halt the loss
of biodiversity by 2010' as articulated in the 6th
Community Environment Action Programme and the European
Union Strategy for Sustainable Development.
In spring 2002, the 6th Conference of the Parties (COP6)
of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted
a Strategic
Plan for the CBD. In the Strategic Plan the "Parties
commit themselves to a more effective and coherent implementation
of the three objectives of the Convention, to achieve by 2010
a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity
loss at the global, regional and national level as a contribution
to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on earth".
Later in 2002 world leaders agreed at the World Summit
for Sustainable Development to 'significantly reduce the
current rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010' as formulated
in the Johannesburg
Plan of Implementation.
In May 2003 Ministers of Environment set the goal to halt
the loss of biodiversity by 2010 at the Pan-European Kyiv
Ministerial Conference in the Kyiv
Resolution on Biodiversity, along with other nine tangible
targets.
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