The goal of significantly reducing the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010 was the focus of a Working Group of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

The Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which met held from 5-9 September 2005, in Montreal, Canada, was widely viewed as a crossroads for the CBD on its way towards achieving the target to reach a significant reduction of the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. The meeting represented an opportunity to assess where the Convention stands, how much ground it has covered in the past and where it needs to go in the future. By the conclusion of the meeting, there was broad agreement that there are two crucial, interrelated issues on the road linking policy to implementation: streamlining the Convention processes and providing assistance for national implementation. The Working Group’s recommendations will be forwarded to the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD, to be held from 20-31 March 2006, in Curitiba, Brazil. IISDRS coverage.