2010 and Beyond: Rising to the Biodiversity Challenge
At the start of the millennium the United Nations set a clear, measurable objective for biodiversity conservation. We are now only two years away from reporting on the target agreed by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2002: to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at global, regional and national levels as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on Earth. The EU countries also agreed in 2002 to a more ambitious target - to halt biodiversity loss by 2010.
