COP 10 aims for a new biodiversity strategy
The 10th COP on Biodiversity is in progress in Nagoya (Japan). The aim of this summit is to develop a new strategy to halt the decline of biodiversity. For over a week now, hundreds of negotiators have been trying to reach an agreement. From Wednesday 27 October, the high-level segment with ministers and heads of state will begin.
In 2002, the COP put forward the goal to slow down the extinction of animal and plant species globally by 2010. However, we will not achieve that goal: in fact, the speed of biodiversity loss is increasing.
The COP 10 will make a thorough evaluation of the goal for 2010 and devise a new strategic plan for 2011-2020. In addition an agreement must also be reached in some twenty other dossiers, the most important ones being Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) and financing for the strategic plan.
At the conference, Belgium represents the EU and its 27 Member States. As Chair of the Environment Council, Flemish Minister for Environment, Nature and Culture Joke Schauvliege will take part in the high-level meeting at the summit, from 27 to 29 October. These last day of the summit, together with the ministers and heads of state she will have to try to cut the knots in dossiers where no agreement has been reached.
Read more on the 10th COP and the role of the European Union.
