The 2010 Biodiversity Target was an overall conservation target aiming to halt the decline of biodiversity

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems. Biodiversity is in part a function of climate. In terrestrial habitats, tropical regions are typically rich whereas polar regions...

 by the end of 2010. The world largely failed to meet the target .
It was first adopted by EU Heads of State at the EU Summit in Gothenburg in June 2001. They decided that "biodiversity decline should be halted with the aim of reaching this objective by 2010".

One year later, the Convention on Biological Diversity

Convention on Biological Diversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity , known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is an international legally binding treaty...

's sixth Conference of the Parties adopted the Strategic Plan for the Convention in Decision VI/26.