PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Convention on Biological Diversity (4 February 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made towards meeting Aichi Targets 10 and 11 under the Convention on Biological Diversity; and what the UK's contribution towards achieving these targets will be.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

Information on global progress towards meeting Aichi Targets 10 and 11 is available in the 4^th Global Biodiversity Outlook:

http://www.cbd.int/gbo/gbo4/publication/gbo4-en-lr.pdf.

The Aichi Targets are global in nature and do not apply to each Contracting Party individually.

Detailed information on action taken by the UK to contribute to their achievement can be found in the UK’s 5^th National Report, available on the Convention on Biological Diversity website at https://www.cbd.int/doc/world/gb/gb-nr-05-en.pdf and in the most recent update to the UK Biodiversity Indicators, published in December 2014: http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4229.

Answered by:
George Eustice (Conservative)
9 February 2015