On 22 December 2010, the UN declared the period from 2011 to 2020 as the UN Decade on Biodiversity.

The Europe 2020 strategy, approved two years ago in part to improve economic governance, is a good starting point, offering the basis for the growth compact that some EU governments have sought.

Many of these reforms are outlined in the current government s own Long Term Strategy for 2020.

The Convention requires countries to prepare a national biodiversity strategy (or equivalent instrument) and to ensure that this strategy is mainstreamed into the planning and activities of all those sectors whose activities can have an impact (positive and negative) on biodiversity.

Taking account of the forecast expressed by the EU that by 2020, the volume of traffic between the EU and its current neighbours is expected to double

The EU cannot alter the international coalition s strategy alone.

The Commission s Europe 2020 initiative sets specific targets for raising school completion rates and employment levels for all EU citizens.

The most cost efficient way to achieve the 20 target would be to operate a single, EU wide carbon market, which would cost the EU about 96 billion annually by 2020.

Third, member states should not cut the EU budget indiscriminately during negotiations on the Union's long term spending plan for 2014 2020.

Those plans include Yemen's Strategic Vision through 2025, the national strategy for youth integration, the national strategy for literacy and adult education, the gender strategy in agriculture and food security and the national population plan for 2001 2020.

This is the strategy that most EU countries, Germany in particular, have chosen.

Just to give you an example, one of the Russian regions, for example, now involves its citizens in planning its strategy up until year 2020.

Rather, it has shifted in a more urgent, complex, and inherently unforeseeable way, as spelled out in the EU 2020 strategy s vision of an Innovation Union.

In other words, this strategy is compatible with EU accession only if the EU strengthens its own capacity for concerted action on foreign policy.

That is a strategy that will leave the US and the EU weaker, not stronger.

Merkel s proposals do not reflect a German strategy aimed at leading the EU through this crisis.

Marine biodiversity

Biodiversity assessments

Biodiversity India lies within the Indomalaya ecozone and contains three biodiversity hotspots.

The EU cannot alter the international coalition s strategy alone. But a united EU can act as a powerful advocate for a better and more coordinated international approach.

But Putin and his siloviki (political allies whose power base is in the security apparatus) seem to prefer an inertia strategy, the worst of the Russia 2020 scenarios.

In any comprehensive strategy for engagement with Asia, the EU is only as strong as its parts.

EU countries subsidized bio fuels production with 3.7 billion in 2006, and intend to cover 8 of their motor fuels from biological sources by 2015 and 20 by 2020.

The Biodiversity Bargain

However, the EU doesn t just want to cut emissions in the smartest possible way, but also to increase the share of renewable energy in the Union by 20 by 2020.

The 2009 EU Renewable Energy Directive, which requires 10 percent of transportation energy from renewable energy by 2020, is the most comprehensive mandatory sustainability standard in place as of 2010.

For example, the EU demanded that renewables like wind and solar account for 20 of energy supplies by 2020, though this is by no means the cheapest way to cut emissions.

The Price of Biodiversity

Tourism and biodiversity conservation

Non proliferation efforts are guided by the EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction of December 2003.

In 2008, Medvedev was installed in the Kremlin as part of Putin s plan, the substantive part of which was known as Strategy 2020, a blueprint for continued economic growth and diversification.

The EU promised to cut its CO2 emissions by 20 by 2020, at a cost that the Commission s own estimates put at about 0.5 of GDP, or roughly 60 billion per year.

If the EU is successful in reducing CO2 emissions by 20 by 2020, Böhringer and Keller find that its reliance on imported fossil fuel would be reduced by just two percentage points.

That seduction should begin this year, with an agenda that sets the process and timeframe for accession, to be followed by an EU Turkey Treaty that confirms the country s accession by 2020.

(iv) 2002 2003 Director of the EU Policy and Legal Advice Centre in Belgrade (tasked by the European Commission with assisting Serbia and Montenegro with the EU accession strategy, see www.plac.yu.org).

The EU Programme for Action, announced earlier this year, outlines our future strategy for combating HIV AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Furthermore, the loss of legislative continuity beyond 2020 would create considerable insecurity for businesses in the EU, leading to diminished investment and interrupting if not terminating Europe s advance toward a low carbon economy.

C. Public goods and biodiversity

Effective consultation and mutual cooperation should be promoted under the national action programmes (NAPs) (UNCCD), National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAPs) (CBD) and national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) (UNFCCC).

The SAICM is developing an overarching policy strategy to achieve by 2020 that chemicals are used and produced in ways that lead to the minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment. At the March 2005 African regional consultation on development of the SAICM, participants noted that achieving the 2020 goal_

The Government has been implementing the National Strategy on the Prevention of HIV AIDS to 2010 and vision 2020 to reduce the number of newly infected people and provide treatment for those infected.

The EU must recognize that the pan European nature of this problem demands a comprehensive and effective strategy for Roma inclusion.

Commissioner Connie Hedegaard says that the slowdown in economic activity will make it easier for the EU to achieve its 2020 goal of ensuring that greenhouse gas emissions are 20 below their 1990 level.

Relatively speaking, 2020 is an eternity away.

Conservation and management of marine biodiversity