Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability
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in: Science, Jahrgang 370, Nr. 6515, 23.10.2020, S. 411-413.
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T1 - Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability
AU - Díaz, Sandra
AU - Zafra-Calvo, Noelia
AU - Purvis, Andy
AU - Verburg, Peter H.
AU - Obura, David
AU - Leadley, Paul
AU - Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca
AU - De Meester, Luc
AU - Dulloo, Ehsan
AU - Martín-López, Berta
AU - Shaw, M. Rebecca
AU - Visconti, Piero
AU - Broadgate, Wendy
AU - Bruford, Michael W.
AU - Burgess, Neil D.
AU - Cavender-Bares, Jeannine
AU - DeClerck, Fabrice
AU - Fernández-Palacios, José María
AU - Garibaldi, Lucas A
AU - Hill, Samantha L. L.
AU - Isbell, Forest
AU - Khoury, Colin K.
AU - Krug, Cornelia B.
AU - Liu, Jianguo
AU - Maron, Martine
AU - McGowan, Philip J. K.
AU - Pereira, Henrique M.
AU - Reyes-García, Victoria
AU - Rocha, Juan
AU - Rondinini, Carlo
AU - Shannon, Lynne
AU - Shin, Yunne-Jai
AU - Snelgrove, Paul V. R.
AU - Spehn, Eva M.
AU - Strassburg, Bernardo
AU - Subramanian, Suneetha M.
AU - Tewksbury, Joshua J.
AU - Watson, James E. M.
AU - Zanne, Amy E.
PY - 2020/10/23
Y1 - 2020/10/23
N2 - Global biodiversity policy is at a crossroads. Recent global assessments of living nature (1, 2) and climate (3) show worsening trends and a rapidly narrowing window for action. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has recently announced that none of the 20 Aichi targets for biodiversity it set in 2010 has been reached and only six have been partially achieved (4). Against this backdrop, nations are now negotiating the next generation of the CBD's global goals [see supplementary materials (SM)], due for adoption in 2021, which will frame actions of governments and other actors for decades to come. In response to the goals proposed in the draft post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) made public by the CBD (5), we urge negotiators to consider three points that are critical if the agreed goals are to stabilize or reverse nature's decline. First, multiple goals are required because of nature's complexity, with different facets—genes, populations, species, deep evolutionary history, ecosystems, and their contributions to people—having markedly different geographic distributions and responses to human drivers. Second, interlinkages among these facets mean that goals must be defined and developed holistically rather than in isolation, with potential to advance multiple goals simultaneously and minimize trade-offs between them. Third, only the highest level of ambition in setting each goal, and implementing all goals in an integrated manner, will give a realistic chance of stopping—and beginning to reverse—biodiversity loss by 2050.
AB - Global biodiversity policy is at a crossroads. Recent global assessments of living nature (1, 2) and climate (3) show worsening trends and a rapidly narrowing window for action. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has recently announced that none of the 20 Aichi targets for biodiversity it set in 2010 has been reached and only six have been partially achieved (4). Against this backdrop, nations are now negotiating the next generation of the CBD's global goals [see supplementary materials (SM)], due for adoption in 2021, which will frame actions of governments and other actors for decades to come. In response to the goals proposed in the draft post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) made public by the CBD (5), we urge negotiators to consider three points that are critical if the agreed goals are to stabilize or reverse nature's decline. First, multiple goals are required because of nature's complexity, with different facets—genes, populations, species, deep evolutionary history, ecosystems, and their contributions to people—having markedly different geographic distributions and responses to human drivers. Second, interlinkages among these facets mean that goals must be defined and developed holistically rather than in isolation, with potential to advance multiple goals simultaneously and minimize trade-offs between them. Third, only the highest level of ambition in setting each goal, and implementing all goals in an integrated manner, will give a realistic chance of stopping—and beginning to reverse—biodiversity loss by 2050.
KW - Sustainability Science
UR - https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6515/411
U2 - 10.1126/science.abe1530
DO - 10.1126/science.abe1530
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 33093100
VL - 370
SP - 411
EP - 413
JO - Science
JF - Science
SN - 0036-8075
IS - 6515
ER -