Brussels, 19/12/2006 (Agence Europe) - Meeting in Council on 18 December, EU environment ministers adopted conclusions on the loss of biodiversity, sending a clear signal to the Commission and Member States, urging them to renew their efforts to achieve the target set in 2001 by the Gothenburg European Council on ending depletion of biodiversity within the EU by 2010. This target was restated in the Lisbon Strategy, when it was relaunched in March 2005, and also in the new EU sustainable...