Decision COP XIV/1
CBD/COP/DEC/14/1
Updated assessment of progress towards selected Aichi Biodiversity Targets and options to accelerate progress
Deeply concerned that, despite many positive actions by Parties and others, most of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets are not on track to be achieved by 2020, which, in the absence of further significant progress, will jeopardize the achievement of the mission and vision of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, and the Sustainable Development Goals, and ultimately the planet’s life support systems;
1.Welcomes the updated analysis of progress in the implementation of the Convention and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and towards the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, including the update on progress in revising/updating and implementing national biodiversity strategies and action plans, including national targets and national reports, and the analysis of the contribution of targets established by Parties and progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets;
2.Welcomes with appreciation the regional assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem services for Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe and Central Asia, and the thematic Assessment of Land Degradation and Restoration of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;
7.Invites Parties that have adopted their national biodiversity strategies and action plans as whole-of-government policy instruments to share, including through the clearing-house mechanism of the Convention, their experiences and best practices in doing so, including challenges encountered;
8.Urges Parties to significantly accelerate their efforts to implement the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, in particular by addressing any gaps between the aspirations included in their national biodiversity strategies and action plans and the actions taken to implement them;
9.Invites Parties to strengthen collaboration with indigenous peoples and local communities, civil society organizations and women’s groups, youth and other relevant stakeholders, including the private sector, to implement the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 effectively;
(a)The regional assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem services for Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe and Central Asia, and the thematic Assessment of Land Degradation and Restoration of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;
13.Invites relevant organizations and development partners to support Parties in undertaking national assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, including through the provision of appropriate technical and financial resources, noting ongoing work in this regard undertaken in the context of BesNET with technical support from the United Nations Environment Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre;
14.Noting the need to enhance political, technical and financial support, technology transfer, and capacity-building, urges Parties and invites other Governments, in accordance with national circumstances, and invites indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant organizations, including from the private sector, and other relevant stakeholders to take urgent action by 2020 on those Aichi Biodiversity Targets, or elements thereof, for which progress needs to be accelerated, by carrying out, among other things, the following actions, as appropriate:
(a)For Target 1, develop communication strategies and tools for education and awareness-raising related to biodiversity as a means to promote behavioural change for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, including sustainable production and consumption, noting that, while more biodiversity-related information has been made available, it is not reaching the general public;
(b)For Target 3, eliminate, phase out or reform perverse incentives that contribute to biodiversity degradation and develop and apply positive incentives that reward the adoption of sustainable practices in harmony with the Convention and other international obligations, taking into account national socioeconomic conditions;
(c)For Target 5, noting that while the annual rate of net forest loss has been halved, further efforts to address regional forest degradation and deforestation are needed and further efforts are needed to reduce the loss and degradation of other ecosystems;
(e)For Target 7, promote the conservation and sustainable use of soil biodiversity, such as by contributing to the International Initiative for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Soil Biodiversity coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; and improve enforcement and monitoring of sustainable forest management and the sustainability of timber trade, particularly in developing countries and tropical regions;
(i)For Targets 11 and 12, noting that not all eco-regions of the world are adequately covered by protected areas, most protected areas are not well connected, and most Parties have not assessed the management effectiveness of the majority of their protected areas, and that global prevention of species loss should focus on specific regions of the world where most species diversity exists and/or where they are the most threatened, focus on the protection, management and conservation of the most significant areas for biodiversity, such as through the initiatives of the Alliance for Zero Extinction and others, through protected areas, other effective area-based conservation measures and specific species conservation measures;
(j)For Target 13, noting that the number of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in ex situ conservation facilities shows an increase, enhance actions to avoid further reduction in genetic variation among breeds of farmed and domesticated animals, and promote in situ conservation in centres of origin and genetic diversity;
(k)For Targets 14 and 15, step up the implementation of the short-term action plan on ecosystem restoration, drawing on the findings of the thematic Assessment of Land Degradation and Restoration of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and noting the Pan-African Action Agenda on Ecosystem Restoration for Increased Resilience, endorsed at the African Ministerial Summit on Biodiversity 2018;
(l)For Target 18, increase efforts in the protection of and respect for traditional knowledge and make use of information contained in the Local Biodiversity Outlooks, inter alia, on the customary sustainable use by indigenous peoples and local communities, to contribute to updated reporting on progress in the implementation of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets;
(m)For Target 19, further promote and facilitate the mobilization of open-access biodiversity-related data and information, considering the voluntary guidance to improve the accessibility of biodiversity data and information;
17.Urges Parties and invites other Governments, in accordance with national circumstances and priorities, and invites other relevant organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities and stakeholders to make use of the options contained in the annex to the present decision, as appropriate;
18.Requests the Executive Secretary to communicate through the United Nations system, including the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and relevant multilateral environmental agreements, that failing to achieve the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 jeopardizes the attainment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and, therefore, urgent action, including achieving resource mobilization targets, is required to achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and to safeguard the planet’s life-support systems;
19.Also requests the Executive Secretary, subject to the availability of resources, to use and analyse the review of scientific information and the outcomes of all products of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, including the regional assessments on biodiversity and ecosystem services and the thematic Assessment of Land Degradation and Restoration, in the preparation of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework under the Convention, and to provide the results of those considerations to the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice at a meeting held prior to the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties;
20.Further requests the Executive Secretary, in collaboration with Parties, to keep the analysis of national biodiversity strategies and action plans and national targets up-to-date and to make this information available through the clearing-house mechanism of the Convention;
21.Encourages Parties to submit the sixth national report in a timely manner, and requests the Executive Secretary to continue to update the analysis of progress towards the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity-2011-2020 on the basis of information contained in the sixth national reports, which should be submitted by 31 December 2018, and to make the updated analysis available for consideration by the Subsidiary Body on Implementation at its third meeting;
22.Requests the Executive Secretary, in consultation with Parties, the Secretariat of the Global Environment Facility, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Environment Programme, to analyse the status of adoption of national biodiversity strategies and action plans by eligible Parties and to continue to monitor the integration of biodiversity into sustainable development plans and poverty eradication strategies;
- Body
- Conference of the Parties (COP)
- Meeting
- COP-1417 - 29 November, 2018Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
- Actors
- 118 29 Parties 20 Other Government(s) 17 Relevant organizations 1 Government(s) 15 Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities 15 Stakeholder(s) 14 Private sector 5 Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity 1 Global Environment Facility 1 United Nations Environment Programme
- AICHI targets
- 54
- Subjects
- 55 11 Strategic Plan 2011-2020 10 Aichi Biodiversity Targets 2 Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity 8 National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) 3 National Reports 2 Indicators 1 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership 2 Clearing-House Mechanisms 1 Communication, Education and Public Awareness 2 CBD-SUBJECT-FOR 2 Marine and Coastal Biodiversity 2 Sustainable Use of Biodiversity 1 Invasive Alien Species 1 Protected Areas 1 Agricultural Biodiversity 1 Ecosystem Restoration 1 Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices 1 Exchange of Information 1 Sustainable Development / Millenium Development Goals 1 Post 2020 Framework 1 Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI)
- Decision document
- Updated assessment of progress towards selected Aichi Biodiversity Targets and options to accelerate progress
- Documents
- CBD/COP/14/5/ADD1CBD/SBSTTA/23/INF/16https://ipbes.net/regional-assessmentshttps://ipbes.net/assessment-reports/ldrhttps://www.bipindicators.net/https://www.besnet.world/convention-biological-diversity-cbdhttps://www.cbd.int/doc/aze-en.pdfhttps://www.cbd.int/doc/c/274b/80e7/34d341167178fe08effd0900/cop-14-afr-hls-04-final-en.pdfhttps://www.cbd.int/gbo/gbo4/publication/lbo-en.pdf
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