Japan Times: From Oct. 18 to 29, the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity, known as COP10, takes place in Nagoya. Billed by some NGOs and Japanese government officials as the conference that will sign a “Kyoto Protocol for all living things,” COP10 has a number of goals, including setting targets to conserve biodiversity systems over the next decade and creating a new body of experts to advise the U.N. on biodiversity. Most …