Carta di Siracusa on Biodiversity

The ""Carta di Siracusa" on Biodiversity" is a political document agreed at the G8 Environmental Ministers Meeting, held in Syracuse (Sicily) from 22 to 24 April 2009. 
Title and organization of the document.
The document is organized in a preamble and four sections. The common decision to leave part of the official title of the document in Italian was taken both for pay an hommage the host country, but also for not having in the title a word like "charter" considered from some of the Ministers present too legally binding, before the official endorsement from the G8 summit meeting.
Sections.
The final section of the document presents a special message for the identification of a global framework for achieving the 2010 Biodiversity Target. This message stresses the importance of biodiversity for human life, highlights the need to implement joint measures for its preservation, underpin the scientific dialogue and the need of a reform of global environmental governance.
Follow-up of the document.
The 35th G8 summit held in L’Aquila endorsed the “Carta di Siracusa” on Biodiversity, on the first day of meetings, July 8, 2009 turn it into a political statement of the heads of state and Governments, and considering it as an essential tool for establishing environmental priorities in global biodiversity.
The Italian government is also planning to officially present the document at the United Nations General Assembly during the special session forecast in 2010 in New York City United Nations headquarters, for the celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity.
External links.
Other WIKI articles about the Group of 8