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Convention
The Convention on Biological Diversity was opened for signature at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. Estonia also signed the convention. Convention was ratified by Riigikogu in the Republic of Estonia on 11 May 1994.
Each party to the Convention took an obligation to develop national strategies, plans or programmes for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity.
For the purposes of the Convention, natural diversity means the diversity of various levels of nature from genetic to ecosystem level, including diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.
The Convention on Biological Diversity has three main goals:
1. conservation of biological diversity or biodiversity;
2. sustainable use of its components;
3. fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from genetic resources.
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