Practical guide helps negotiators put equity at the heart of the new global biodiversity framework
Conservation efforts, while critical to reducing biodiversity loss, often fail to treat people fairly. This undermines the sustainability of these efforts and can further marginalise already vulnerable people. At the same time, the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) will be a major milestone in global agreements on biodiversity conservation, setting international ambition for the next decade.
Two new guides seek to support Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity who wish to see strengthened provisions for equity and human development in the draft post-2020 GBF. Find out more in the blog by Ebony Holland and Dilys Roe.
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Spotlight: Connecting climate change and nature
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Project
Supporting a nature positive, equitable Global Biodiversity Framework
IIED is keen to ensure that the final post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework that is negotiated by Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity is not just good for nature, but good for people too.
Find out what IIED is doing.
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Blog by Cristina Pita
Life and livelihoods: the impact of COVID-19 on small-scale fishing communities
Small-scale fisheries are a vital source of employment, income and food for millions, especially in developing countries, but COVID-19 has affected the entire aquatic food system. On World Oceans Day, Cristina Pita looks at the drastic impact on the life and livelihoods for the poorest and most vulnerable.
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Blog by James Mayers
Trees need locally-grown politics
Presidents and celebrities planting trees are in the news again, and with green post-COVID-19 recovery plans afoot and the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, James Mayers considers what it will take to get the right trees planted and looked after in the right places, by people who actually want them.
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Blog by Ebony Holland and Paul Steele
Lessons from Paris: global biodiversity framework must engage business, grow finance
Decisions taken this year will set the course for nature, climate and development for a decade. We consider some key lessons from the UNFCCC climate change journey so far, and how they might help strengthen the global biodiversity framework being finalised in October.
Read the recent blog.
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IIED Briefing
New biodiversity framework can learn from climate change experience
At the CBD COP15 this year, negotiators keen to drive a whole-of-society step-change in tackling the biodiversity crisis can take inspiration from the climate change agenda. This paper draws on lessons from UNFCCC processes and outcomes to outline two practical opportunities to achieve a strong and effective post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: scale up finance and strengthen business engagement.
Download the briefing.
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Our partners' perspectives
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Interview with Estrella Penunia
Unleashing the potential of forest farmers to address climate change and biodiversity loss
We interviewed Estrella ‘Esther’ Penunia, secretary general of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development, ahead of World Environment Day. In the Q&A she highlights the challenges faced by small-scale women and men farmers in Asia from climate change, loss of biodiversity and land degradation.
Read the interview.
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Guest blog by Alexandre Chausson and Lydia Cole
Talking transdisciplinarity
Guest bloggers Alexandre Chausson and Lydia Cole discuss achieving research impact through co-producing knowledge in transdisciplinary teams.
Read the guest blog.
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Project report, 83 pages
Investing in nature for development: do nature-based interventions deliver local development outcomes?
Does investing in nature actually deliver development at the local level? This report provides insights into the types of direct, site-based interventions that can help or hinder the achievement of development outcomes for local people and, ultimately, the delivery of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the SDGs.
Download the paper now.
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Research report, 73 pages
Assessing and improving the social impacts of protected areas: case studies from Kenya and Uganda
This research report provides an overview of the Social Assessment for Protected and Conserved Areas (SAPA) methodology and describes the results of SAPA’s application at six protected areas in Kenya and Uganda. These case studies provide a practical illustration of the kind of information generated by SAPA, and integrate outcome harvesting to determine whether SAPA can make a difference.
Download the report.
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Negotiators' guide #1
Strengthening equity in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: a guide for negotiators
This guide is intended to support Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) who wish to see strengthened equity provisions in the draft post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). It is the first in a series designed to support CBD negotiators in influencing key aspects of the GBF where it aligns to their national interests.
Download the first guide in the series.
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Negotiators' guide #2
Strengthening the development dimensions in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: a guide for negotiators
This guide seeks to support Parties to the CBD who wish to see strengthened provisions for human development in the draft post-2020 GBF. It will help negotiators to develop arguments for enhancing the contributions of biodiversity to human development.
Download the second guide in the series.
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Project report, 50 pages
Why eat wild meat? Local food choices, food security and desired design features of wild meat alternative projects in Cameroon
This project report summarises research conducted in four villages around the Dja Faunal Reserve in Southeastern Cameroon. The research aimed to understand local food preferences and the importance of wild meat for food security, and explore which kind of wild meat-alternative projects could result in the greatest reduction in household hunting and consumption of wild meat.
Read the report.
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Backgrounder
Nature-based solutions or the ecosystem approach?
A debate over terminology risks distracting attention from the key issues under discussion in the post-2020 GBF, and derail agreeing an ambitious framework that can both halt biodiversity loss and deliver for human wellbeing.
In this backgrounder, we explore the concepts of nature-based solutions and the ecosystem approach and gauge how far they differ, and look at concerns that representatives of Indigenous Peoples have with the term nature-based solutions.
Download the backgrounder.
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