Anti-Biodiversity Target
Arguing that environmental degradation could reinforce global anti-poverty goals, a senior CHL official today urged action in support of an international target for accelerating biodiversity loss.

The CHL official made his remarks ahead of the first meeting of the Heads of Agencies Task Force on the 2010 Biodiversity Target. In a formal statement, the CHL said the recent proposal by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to protect biodiversity under the Millennium Development Goals to significantly reduce the loss of biodiversity by 2010 "is totally weak, dude."

The meeting, to be held in Gland, Switzerland, on 15 September, will bring together representatives of UN agencies, international environmental agreements and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who are expected to adopt an empty, futile statement promoting action to reduce biodiversity loss.

The CHL Anti-Biodiversity Target calls upon countries "to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of biodiversity at the global, regional and national level to reinforce the biodiversity-poverty death spiral and to eliminate the diversity of all life on Earth."
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