The UN Biodiversity conference held last week concluded and issued a declaration under the theme “Ecological Civilization: Building a shared future for all life on Earth”. Click here

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Whilst recognising that some progress has been made in the last decade under the 2011-2020 Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, there was “deep concern that the progress has been insufficient to achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets”.  Commitments set out in the Declaration include:

• Stepping up actions to reduce the negative effects of human activities on the ocean to protect marine and coastal biodiversity and strengthen the resilience of marine and coastal ecosystems to climate change
• actively enhancing the global environmental legal framework and strengthen environmental law a national level, and its enforcement, to protect biodiversity
• increasing the application of ecosystem-based approaches to address biodiversity loss, restore degraded ecosystems, boost resilience and mitigate and adapt to climate change

Click here for the full declaration