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What is the issue?

In December 2022, Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will meet (COP15) to determine the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (the framework). ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� Members see and securing our common future.

Despite an increase in policies and actions to support biodiversity, indicators show that the drivers of biodiversity loss have worsened and biodiversity further declined between 2011 and 2020. At the global level none of the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets agreed by Parties to the CBD in 2010 have been fully achieved.

suggests there have been gaps in the ambition and commitment of countries to address nature loss over the past decade; national plans have generally been poorly aligned to the Aichi Targets and insufficient in scope to meet them.

based on the ™ tell us that one million species are currently threatened with extinction, but modelling demonstrates it is not too late to reverse these trends.

Why is this important?

The degradation of ecosystems and decline of biodiversity exacerbate climate change and threaten the natural processes which protect human health and provide clean air, water and food.

Healthy ecosystems support 55% of global GDP, and the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity underpins sustainable development. An ambitious new framework is therefore needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the vision of living in harmony with nature by 2050.

The framework and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration are opportunities to reverse nature loss at scale. To do so is critical to solving the climate crisis. Healthy ecosystems protect communities from climate change impacts like extreme weather, and Nature-based Solutions could provide up to 37% of our climate change mitigation needs as per the Paris Agreement.

What can be done?

Parties to the CBD must agree to halt and reverse biodiversity loss to achieve a nature-positive world by 2030 for the benefit of the planet and people. Transformational change to humanity’s current way of living is vital, requiring decisive local and global action from all countries and all sectors of society. ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� is helping create the tools to guide, monitor and measure such action.

Global targets must be measurable, underpinned by science, and have explicit outcomes. These should include action to tackle threats to biodiversity (specifically genes, species and ecosystems), and to protect and restore the benefits nature provides to people. The Global Species Action Plan highlights the importance of species conservation and supports implementation of the framework by setting out the actions required to achieve the species outcomes in the framework’s mission, goals, and targets. 

Protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures should be expanded to cover at least 30% of the planet by 2030, while recognising the rights and roles of Indigenous peoples and local communities (“30 x 30”). The 30% must incorporate all areas of particular importance for biodiversity, including key biodiversity areas (KBAs), with steps taken to ensure habitat connectivity. As the global standard for effective area-based conservation, the can both support the achievement of “30 x 30” and act as a simple indicator of progress. 

Given the links between the climate and nature crises, Parties should view targets within the framework as aligned to existing climate commitments. Two-thirds of governments supporting the Paris Agreement include Nature-based Solutions in their national climate plans, for example. The will help Parties ensure such projects are as effective as possible.

Monitoring the framework’s implementation is essential and ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� supports the programme of monitoring through indicators proposed in the draft framework. Parties should particularly consider the as the world’s most comprehensive information source on global extinction risk.

The framework must engage countries, cities, sub-national governments, Indigenous peoples and local communities, industry, women, youth, farmers, civil society and the private sector. It should be inclusive, understanding of gender roles and inequalities, and reflect links between nature and culture.

To facilitate such engagement all elements of the framework should be scalable, from local to global levels, and allow anyone to determine their contributions towards global targets. The , co-created by ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ��, can be used to quantify the impact of specific actions in specific places towards halting global species extinctions.

Governments must guarantee the additional investment in nature every year for the framework to succeed. Financial resources from all sources must be increased to at least USD 200 billion per year. New and additional financing is urgently needed; private, public and philanthropic finance should be mobilised. As governments help economies recover from the COVID-19 crisis, they must ensure that stimulus investments do no additional harm to nature, and should direct at least 10% of the overall recovery investment to protecting and restoring nature.

Before the framework’s adoption and during its implementation, the conservation community should raise the awareness of all governments and all stakeholders on the urgency to act. Active implementation is the key to halt further biodiversity loss and achieve recovery and the vision of living in harmony with nature by 2050.

More information:

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������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� Red List of Threatened Species:

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������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� Congress 2020 Resolutions 040 and 101: