Given below are two statements: Statement-I United Nations General Assembly declared 2010 as International Year of Biodiversity. Statement II : 2010 was also the target year to achieve the halt in the decline of biodiversity. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
This question tests knowledge of the global biodiversity calendar linked to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Statement I: The United Nations General Assembly did declare 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity, to raise awareness about the importance of biological diversity and the accelerating loss of species. This is factually correct.
Statement II: The year 2010 was also fixed as the target year under the CBD's 2010 Biodiversity Target, adopted to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss (a halt/slowing of the decline) by that year. This too is correct.
Since both statements are accurate and consistent with each other, the response that both are correct is right.
Why the other choices fail: saying both are incorrect ignores the well-documented UN declaration and CBD target. Saying only one of the two is correct is wrong because there is no factual error in either statement.
Takeaway: 2010 was simultaneously the International Year of Biodiversity and the CBD's target year for slowing biodiversity loss.
Correct answer: Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
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