香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播

Story 01 Apr, 2022

Targets for effective area-based conservation under the 30x30 ambitions: What Counts? Who Counts?

On 25聽March 2022, the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Protected and Conserved Areas Team, together with WCPA, CEESP, the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity and ICCA Consortium organised a side event at the CBD meetings of the SBSTTA, SBI and OEWG in Geneva.

This was created as a forum to exchange on the much-discussed new draft target, 鈥30 x 30鈥 replacing the old , and will now potentially call for 30% of global land and waters to be conserved. It is, however, not just about the focus on spatial coverage. To be successful in conserving biodiversity, these areas must focus on quality, i.e. they must be equitably governed, effectively managed and achieving conservation outcomes. This event therefore sought to share knowledge and practice on how Parties and their supporting institutions, partners and donors can engage those聽who count, to then begin to expand appropriate recognition and support for the diverse and collective actions that conserve what counts聽for the draft Target 3 and 30x30 ambitions, through effective and equitable systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures.

Stephen Woodley, Vice Chair for Science and Biodiversity, 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 World Commission on Protected Areas gave the solid of global land and water to be conserved. He the origins and definition of the term 鈥渙ther effective conservation measures鈥 (OECMs), the guidance available and key concepts to bear in mind, including the importance of equitable conservation practices. 聽

Building on this understanding of what should count, Jennifer Kelleher, Programme Lead for Governance, Equity and Rights asked the question If there are three options to achieve the target: to improve existing protected areas, to create new protected areas and most likely, to recognise other effective conservation measures that are already in effect, then all three of these throw up different sets of governance questions.聽 With the new proposed wording of 鈥渆quitable governance鈥 in the draft Target, guidance from the CBD and 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 informs that it will be through, such as Indigenous Peoples, local communities and other private actors that will make this Target happen.聽 The recognition of these actors at the national level (or systems level) is key.

Joji Carino, Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) that in addition to the focus on governance, an acknowledgment of perspectives is critical.聽 She presented the recently published briefing on stressing that the rights to lands, territories and resources that are customarily owned, occupied or otherwise used by Indigenous Peoples and other communities with collective rights, should be recognised and supported through national policies and laws. 聽

This was followed by a variety local perspectives from diverse areas which would fall under target 3, a and , both from Colombia and a in Canada.聽 A lively discussion, moderated by Kristen Walker of CEESP, touched upon several key points of the discussion, from the importance of free, prior and informed consent right through to the vital role of sustainable financing and partnership building.

The event closed with words from Lucy Mulenkei, IIFB and Trevor Sandwith, Director for the Centre for Conservation Action, 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 who offered words of guidance. Lucy Mulenkei stressed that 鈥淲e shouldn鈥檛 stop here, we really need to make sure that we continue, we need to work collectively together to be able to understand these processes. Some of the policies that exist discriminate and place Indigenous Peoples in a certain situation, but when they are included in the decision-making processes, and are part and parcel in terms of the planning, this will make life easier than ever before鈥. And Trevor Sandwith underlined that 鈥淭he 30% target is important from a scientific point of view, but what we are talking about is the effective conservation of nature being the result鈥o what we have to do is to invoke the whole collective of actors who can make that happen..聽 we need governance and management that are both effective and are essential to conserve nature 鈥 And, moreover we need a society that is empowered to conserve, and so we need 30x30 by all of us鈥.

Watch the event here: