Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

Australia and the world appear to have failed to meet the 2010 biodiversity target to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss,

(ii)

on Wednesday, 22 September 2010 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon implored the world’s leaders to commit to reversing the alarming rate of biodiversity loss before it is too late, and

(iii)

the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10) will take place in Nagoya, Japan from 18 October to 29 October 2010; and

(b)

calls on the Australian Government to:

(i)

push for ambitious measurable and time-bound biodiversity targets at COP10, and

(ii)

support the target of halting the loss, degradation and fragmentation of natural habitats by 2020 and a ten-fold increase in capacity (human resources and financing) for implementing COP 10.

Question negatived.