28 January 2010 (Madrid, Spain). The ten “Cibeles” are the outcome of the Spanish Presidency’s conference on the “Post-2010 Biodiversity Vision and Target – The role of Protected Areas and Ecological Networks in Europe” held on 26-27 January. Spain calls for a “target for Europe to halt the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystem services, and restore them significantly, by 2020″ and announces “a new beginning for biodiversity conservation in Europe”.
In particular, the 10 priorities (cibeles) identified in the document are:
- To incorporate the objectives and targets for biodiversity as part of the European Union Strategy for 2020, which will replace the Gotenburg and Lisbon Strategies
- To ensure payment for ecosystem services
- To deepen the integration of biodiversity into agriculture, fishing, energy, transport and development policies
- To fully apply the Birds and Habitats Directives of the European Union and to complete the establishment of the Natura 2000 and Emerald Networks
- To preserve the marine environment
- To urgently adopt concrete measures to efficiently tackle the problems related to deforestation, to forest, soil and water resources degradation and to the introduction of invasive alien species
- To support the establishment and management of protected areas and ecological networks in third countries
- To boost the integration of scientific knowledge into decision making processes
- Reform the global environmental governance system
- Establishment of European Action Plans to achieve the 2020 target
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