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During June 2010, at an intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder meeting in Busan in the Republic of Korea, a document was adopted which sets the path for establishing an IPBES. The “
The sixth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity will be held February 1-5, 2010, and will consider status and lessons learned from the 2010 target and provide CBD with a sound basis for developing post 2010 biodiversity targets. New targets will be set under CBD and the United Nations in the second half of 2010. 
With only less than 52 days left before the start of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity (IYB), the website for this unique event in the history of the United Nations was officially launched at a ceremony in Montreal, held with more than 500 participants representing the 193 Parties to the Convention and partner organizations.
Aichi/Nagoya International E-Conference on the post 2010 Biodiversity Target (ANIEC 2010) has been launched today to gather opinion from the broad and diverse groups of stakeholders on “how” and “what” actions should be taken in the short and medium term after 2010.
The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, was in Cambridge this month to give the inaugural The Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) Guest Lecture. Mr Benn welcomed the creation of The Cambridge Conservation Initiative as a key player in helping to evaluate and communicate the importance of ecosystems and biodiversity. He stressed the need to articulate clearly the science, and specifically the numbers, that show how ecosystems underpin economic prosperity, and to act on the economic opportunities that biodiversity conservation offers. 
