Side Event
Tracking progress towards the CBD’s protected area targets
Organizer
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (in cooperation with the SCBD)
Date and Time
11 May 2010 13:15 - 14:45
Parties to the CBD set a number of targets for the world’s protected areas to be met in terrestrial habitats by 2010 and in marine habitats by 2012. These targets include 1) protecting at least 10% of each of the world’s ecoregions, 2) protecting areas of particular importance to biodiversity, and 3) assessing at least 30% of the world’s protected areas for their management effectiveness. This side event will review progress towards these targets based on the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), a global database of management effectiveness assessments, and a range of biodiversity datasets including key biodiversity areas and terrestrial and marine ecoregions. We will show that, although considerable progress has been made, overall the Parties to the CBD have not yet met the protected area targets set for 2010 and 2012. We will also discuss how the approaches applied in our analyses could be used to track progress towards future biodiversity and protected area targets.