Mainstreaming biodiversity through sector-based commitments emerging from multi-stakeholder dialogue in pilot countries.
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Mainstreaming biodiversity through sector-based commitments emerging from multi-stakeholder dialogue in pilot countries.
Our challenge
The trend towards fewer species, less abundant populations, and degraded ecosystems has not decelerated since 2010. One million animal and plant species are under the threat of extinction. The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species rely is deteriorating more rapidly than ever. Eroding livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide it also triggers economic and financial risks.
Implementation of actions to conserve nature and manage it more sustainably has progressed but not sufficiently to stem the direct and indirect drivers of nature’s deterioration. Stopping biodiversity decline and preserving ecosystems are urgently needed if we want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2050.
However, we will not be able to conserve the earth’s biological diversity only through the protection of critical areas.
Our challenge
Our solution
Biodiversity rescue is mandatory to secure the provision of vital ecosystem goods and services such as food, fibres, timber, carbon sequestration, water regulation, disaster risk reduction, etc.
Biodiversity conservation is a precondition for achieving sustainable development. As such, it needs to be integrated into all sectors and across sectors: biodiversity needs to be mainstreamed.
Biodiversity mainstreaming is generally understood as ensuring that biodiversity, and the services it provides, are appropriately and adequately factored into policies and practices that rely and have an impact on it. In addition, mainstreaming biodiversity means to integrate all impacts on and dependencies to biodiversity along the production lines and value chains.
This requires efforts and enhanced collaboration from all parts of the society.
Our solution
Our vision
”Establishing voluntary commitments to be shared and implemented by relevant stakeholders as a complement to the enforcement of the legal framework.
Our goal is to stop biodiversity decline by 2030 and to restore biodiversity by 2050.
Tackling the roots of biodiversity decline, by engaging stakeholders for biodiversity preservation, around scientifically based objectives, and on a voluntary basis;
At least 2 key economic sectors committing to reduce their pressure on biodiversity for the next decade building on scientific diagnosis in each country;
Engaging now all stakeholders to define sectoral voluntary commitments towards halting biodiversity loss by 2030 and demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach;
16 countries to first pilot the approach and then to disseminate their outcomes.
Our vision
”Establishing voluntary commitments to be shared and implemented by relevant stakeholders as a complement to the enforcement of the legal framework.
Our focus
BIODEV2030 is an experimental approach to be implemented in 16 pilot countries, representative of various socio-economic, environmental and geographical contexts.
Empowering governments together with the private sector and civil society in each country, to jointly identify and engage transformational changes in economic sectors which are strategic for national development and significantly impact biodiversity in the country.
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Republic of the Congo
• Ethiopia
• Fiji
• Gabon
• Guinea
• Guyana
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Mozambique
• Senegal
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Vietnam
Our focus
The partners
The French public development bank funds, supports and accelerates the transitions to a fairer and more sustainable world. Focusing on climate, biodiversity, peace, education, urban development, health and governance, AFD carries out more than 4,000 projects in France’s overseas territories and 115 countries.
The French public international cooperation agency designs and implements projects which aim to contribute to the balanced development of partner countries, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda and the priorities of France’s external action.
Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Guinea, Guyana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Senegal, Tunisia, Uganda, and Vietnam.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the oldest and largest international organization in charge of nature conservation. Its mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies around the world to maintain the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that the full use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
IUCN facilitates the project in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guinea-Conakry, Kenya, Mozambique, and Senegal.
The World Wide Fund for Nature – France (WWF-France) is part of the WWF’s Network, which works in 100 countries and is supported by close to five million members globally. Its work combines global reach with a foundation in science, involves action at every level from local to global, and ensures the delivery of innovative solutions that meet the needs of both people and nature.
WWF-France facilitates the project in Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Guyana, Madagascar, Tunisia, Uganda and Vietnam.
The partners
Our approach
• To assess the threats to biodiversity at the national level
• To estimate the potential threat reduction measures of at least 2 key economic sectors per country
• To identify priorities for biodiversity conservation and sustainable management at both the sectoral and national levels.
• To facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogues to share a common vision and set voluntary commitments involving key economic sectors, to support national commitments for the Post- 2020 Agenda
• To encourage the upscaling of sectoral commitments into national and to supra-national engagements
• To integrate the sectoral commitments into the national biodiversity strategies and action plans.
Thanks to:
• The creation of a community of practice by disseminating learnings, sharing experience and discussing the process and the methodology with other countries
• The facilitation of national and regional workshops, and
global involvement in many arenas such as the IUCN World Conservation Congress in January 2021 in Marseille (France) and at CBD COP15 in April 2021
• A broadening of the mobilization beyond the 16 pilot countries.
Our approach
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