"I think the most important achievement is that we made it our goal to achieve the unfinished work that was done in Japan, which was resource mobilisation. However, after intense negotiations and tremendous efforts by the entire team and great cooperation by all the parties, we did manage to achieve that goal," Union Environment Minister Jayanti Natarajan said.
She said it was a matter of pride that India hosted one of the largest conferences in which over 14,000 delegates from 172 countries participated.
The Plenary of the Convention began yesterday evening, but it took a long break to enable the delegates to come to an agreement on the issue of funding.
It met again in the small hours of today after reaching an agreement on resource mobilisation.
India, which assumed presidency of the convention on biodiversity, had taken the lead to help find a way out of the logjam on the issue of resource mobilisation.
The ambitious goals, known as Aichi Targets to be achieved by 2020, have been set for protection of biodiversity.
