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Decision COP XIV/2
CBD/COP/DEC/14/2

Scenarios for the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity

The Conference of the Parties,

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1.Welcomes the conclusions of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice regarding scenarios for the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity contained the annex to the present decision, and takes note of the information contained in the notes by the Executive Secretary and supporting information documents,  and of the Assessment Report on Scenarios and Models of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services,  noting their relevance to the discussions on the long-term strategic directions to the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity, approaches to living in harmony with nature and the process of developing a post-2020 global biodiversity framework;

2. Invites the scientific and other relevant communities working on scenarios and related assessments to take into account the following issues which are relevant to the development of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework:

(a) The broad range of underlying drivers and systemic and structural issues related to biodiversity loss;

(b) Combinations of policy approaches at multiple scales and under different scenarios;

(c) The identification of potential synergies, trade-offs and limitations related to biodiversity that should be considered in order to identify effective policies and measures to enable the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals;

(d) The contributions of the collective action of indigenous peoples and local communities in the conservation of biological diversity and the sustainable use of its components;

(e) The consequences of alternative scenarios for the customary sustainable use of biodiversity by indigenous peoples and local communities;

(f) Scenario analyses on financing the post-2020 global biodiversity framework and the attainment of the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity, taking into account Article 20 of the Convention;

(g) Scenario analyses on the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources in accordance with the Convention and the Nagoya Protocol, including monetary and non-monetary benefits arising from their non-commercial and commercial utilization, and the potential of benefitsharing to promote the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity;

(h) A gender perspective in the development, implementation and monitoring of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework;

(i) The potential positive and negative impacts of productive sectors on biodiversity, such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries;

(j) Technology developments, such as advances in data analytics, digital sequence information on genetic resources, new kinds of living modified organisms and synthetic biology, and their potential positive or negative impacts on the achievement of the three objectives of the Convention as well as on the lifestyles and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities;

(k) The importance of increasing awareness about the multiple values of biodiversity and the consequences of biodiversity loss through enhanced communication;

(l) How scenarios and related assessments could inform the identification of short- and medium-term milestones in pursuit of the long-term goal;

3. Requests the Executive Secretary, in collaboration with relevant partners, to facilitate capacity-building activities in accordance with decision XIII/23, especially for developing countries and countries with economies in transition, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, to enable all countries to participate in the development and application of scenarios;

4. Also requests the Executive Secretary, pursuant to decision XIII/22 on the framework for a communication strategy, to promote the use of scenarios as a communication tool for raising public awareness and to foster the participation and involvement of all stakeholders, in particular academia and the scientific community, and to scale up global support for biodiversity concerns, including by engaging celebrities as biodiversity ambassadors from all regions who would to act as biodiversity voices.

Body
Conference of the Parties (COP)

Meeting
COP-14
Fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
17 - 29 November, 2018
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

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