2010 Biodiversity Target

The " 2010 targets for biodiversity conservation " were originally adopted by the EU leaders at the summit of the European Union in June 2001 in Gothenburg with the intention of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010. A year later, adopted the sixth conference of the signatories of the Convention on Biological Diversity ( Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD) Decision VI/26. The signatories commit themselves thus to a more effective and coherent implementation of the three objectives of the Convention. These provided to reduce the loss of biodiversity by 2010 at global, regional and national level as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on Earth significantly.

The 2002 held in Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development confirmed the 2010 biodiversity targets and called for their compliance.

In the opening speech of the 10th Conference of the Parties ( COP10 ) to the Convention on Biological Diversity said Jochen Flasbarth, the head of the German Federal Environment Agency, in October 2010 that the world community has not achieved the goal of halting the loss of biodiversity. Nevertheless, progress in the protection of species were recognized as losses of forest areas have decreased in some regions and many countries have developed national strategies for the protection of biodiversity. As an example, he cited the 2007 adopted by the German Federal Cabinet National Strategy on Biological Diversity.