National commitments to Aichi Targets and their implications for monitoring the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

ABSTRACT: The Convention on Biological Biodiversity (CBD) exists as a major multilateral environmental agreement to safeguard biodiversity and "live in harmony with nature". To deliver it, strategies and frameworks are set out in regular agreements that are then implemented at the national scale. However, we are not on track to achieve overall goals, and frameworks so far have not been successful. This could be due to unambitious targets, low follow-through on commitments, or desired outcomes for nature not being achieved when action is taken. Here, we focus on national planning and reporting documents from a set of 30% of Parties to the CBD. We found that nearly half of the commitments mentioned in national planning documents did not appear in the Sixth National Reports and that further losses emer

SUBMITTER: Maney C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11332214 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature