Environment Minister Attends Key Biodiversity Meeting
From October 27 to 29, Minister of the Environment Jaanus Tamkivi will be leading Estonia's delegation to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan, billed as the largest biodiversity conference in the convention's 18-year history.
Tamkivi will be joining other ministers and heads of state at the meeting, which aims to set targets for global biodiversity conservation for the 2011-2010 period, a statement from the the ministry said.
This year's meeting takes on an extra degree of poignancy as the United Nations has designated 2010 as the International Year for Biodiversity.
Over 190 countries are signatories to the convention. Estonia became a signatory in 1994.