Post-2020 Targets for Biodiversity

With the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's existing global targets for biodiversity expiring in 2020, world leaders are planning to adopt a new global biodiversity framework, with new goals, targets and indicators, at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD CoP15).

OVERVIEW VIDEO: ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY

POSITION PAPERS & MATERIALS FOR CBD SBSTTA and SBI

GOALS, TARGETS AND INDICATORS FOR ECOSYSTEM INTEGRITY

Webinar on Ecosystem Integrity in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

COMMITTING TO PROTECT OR CONSERVE 30%
OF OUR PLANET BY 2030

WCS supports the global efforts to ensure that CBD Parties commit to protecting or conserving least 30% of land and sea areas by 2030 through area-based conservation measures, including protected areas that effectively mitigate impacts from identified threats, and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) that demonstrate comparable outcomes to protected areas. The science is clear that at least 30% of the global ocean and 30% of terrestrial and freshwater areas must be protected if the world is to avert the worst outcomes of the biodiversity and climate crises.

RESOURCE MOBILIZATION POST-2020

The OECD has estimated that government investments (subsidies) in activities harmful to biodiversity are 5-6 times larger than both public and private investment in biodiversity. Current levels of funding are already insufficient to manage existing protected areas, and the financial shortfalls are even worse in regions with a number of developing countries where the majority of the world’s biodiversity is located. A post-2020 framework must include commitments to identify and eliminate harmful expenditures and perverse subsidies, while also increasing both domestic and international spending on biodiversity and nature conservation.

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