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Building on the Beyond Aichi sessions held at the World Parks Congress in Sydney in 2014, the purpose of the WCPA鈥檚 Beyond the Aichi Targets Task Force is two-fold:
- 聽To help build global momentum for the Promise of Sydney to scale up conservation, using protected areas as the key conservation tool, and
- 聽To ensure that, in 2020, new global conservation targets for spatial conservation are set that would be meaningful for achieving the CBD鈥檚 basic purpose, which is the conservation of biological diversity and the halting of biodiversity loss.
Informed by the best available science, and a range of perspectives, the Task Force will ask and seek to answer what are truly sustainable conservation targets. It is understood that in a world of 7.5 billion, the targets will vary by ecological and social conditions and thus will require an ecoregion-by-ecoregion approach. The Task Force will not endeavour to impose a 鈥渙ne size fits all鈥 approach.