WECF Briefings - 2006 - Biodiversity

Information on the biodiversity and conservation initiative.

26.02.2006

The Countdown 2010 Initiative: Save Biodiversity

Policy context
Reducing the rate of, or even halting, biodiversity loss by 2010 is an explicit target of respectively the Convention on Biological Diversity and both the Kyiv Resolution on Biodiversity and the 6th Environment Action Programme of the EU.

Under the EU Sustainable Development Strategy, halting the loss of biodiversity in the EU is a priority. At the European Council Meeting in Gothenburg in June 2001, European Heads of State and Government made a commitment to reverse the decline of biodiversity in the EU by 2010.

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