We have a plan 16 December 2010 | Audio Throughout the two weeks
of the conference in Nagoya, delegates were discussing a new
plan to reduce the current pressures on the planet’s
biodiversity and take urgent action to save and restore nature.
Targets to reduce the loss of biodiversity by 2010 haven’t been
met and the need for stronger efforts and commitments is now
more urgent than ever. The new plan adopted in Nagoya consists
of 20 targets designed to tackle the extinction crisis and
restore the earth’s natural capital, to be achieved by 2020. The
agreement provides a wide and flexible framework, to be adapted
at the regional, national and local levels, for taking specific
action and integrating biodiversity into all sectors. It will
also serve as a common reference for other biodiversity-related
conventions, such as the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species (CITES), the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
and the World Heritage Convention, allowing for more coherent
and better coordinated conser