Success through continuity: 2010 biodiversity target at the center of EU’s triple presidency
23 November 2006, Berlin, Germany. The upcoming three EU Presidencies – Germany, Portugal and Slovenia – have agreed on a joint biodiversity strategy which has at its core the 2010 biodiversity target. “The 2010 target demonstrates its unifying force”, said Sebastian Winkler, “it is for the first time that we have a 18 month biodiversity strategy, ensuring a sustained and coordinated effort in EU to keep biodiversity on the political agenda.” Countdown 2010 will mobilize its network and work closely with the EU Presidencies on marine, business and biodiversity and forest issues with a culmination of the strategy at the CBD Conference of the Parties to be held in Bonn from 19-30 May 2008.
