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Part III Reading (Reading in Depth) Section A Passage 1 The world will miss its agreed target to stem biodiversity loss by next year, according to experts gathering in Cape Town for a landmark conference devoted to biodiversity science. The goal was agreed at the 6th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in April 2003. Some 123 world ministers __1__ to “achieve, by 2010, a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the local, national and regional levels, as a ___2__ to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on Earth.” “We wil