Founder of publicly traded Sugi Pharmacy with more than 600 drugstores centered on Aichi Prefecture in central Japan.
"We don't have any qualified candidates, so he'll have to do, " said lower house member Kazuo Aichi last week.
Countries are now in the process of updating their NBSAPs to reflect this commitment and help them achieve the Aichi Target.
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The generosity of private donors can only help as we take steps toward achieving the Aichi Targets and preserving life on Earth.
This 2020 Challenge was Scotland's response to the European Union's Biodiversity Strategy for 2020 and the 'Aichi Targets' set by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
Developed countries agreed at the conference to increase funding to support efforts in developing states towards meeting the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, effectively doubling biodiversity-related international financial flows by 2015.
Shanghai, however, is hoping to attract 70m visitors to its six-month fair, more than three times as many as went to Aichi and 12 times more than to Zaragoza.
Nevertheless, we can confidently say that doing nothing is sure to produce catastrophic results, while achieving the Aichi Targets is the most realistic hope we have of creating a better future.
The country recruited Brazilians and Peruvians of Japanese descent to work in the industrial clusters around Tokyo and Nagoya in Aichi prefecture that serve the country's giant carmakers and electronics firms.
To assist eligible countries in translating the Aichi Targets into NBSAPs before COP11, Japan has established a Japan Biodiversity Fund, while additional funds have been made available through the Global Environment Facility.
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Marine areas are to receive special attention by governments as part of renewed efforts to meet the Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 of ensuring that 10% of marine areas are protected by 2020.
's Kohda Site (located in Kohda, Aichi Prefecture).
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The vast scale of the site, 20 times bigger than the one at Zaragoza and more than twice as large as Aichi's, means covering long distances between pavilions, and there are also queues for buses.
Governments need to put the development of new NBSAPs and the signing of the Nagoya Protocol high on their list of priorities, because any delay on these fronts will augur poorly for the achievement of the Aichi Targets.
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In addition to the Aichi Targets, an example of the progress we are making is the adoption at COP10 of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization.
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