Domestic nongovernmental organizations on Tuesday urged parties participating in the three-day high-level Convention on Biological Diversity beginning Wednesday to adopt ambitious targets in the new strategic plan for beyond 2011.
Speaking at a news conference, Japan Civil Network for Convention on Biological Diversity said the COP10 parties must adopt a resolution to make the next 10 years the "United Nations Decade of Biodiversity" to strengthen the effort to stop biodiversity loss.
"The (Convention on Biological Diversity) is important, but we believe a bigger framework is necessary" to include more people and organizations of various sectors to participate in the effort to stop the declining number of species, said Minoru Kashiwagi of JCN-CBD.