BIODEV2030

Why

Our challenge

Why our challenge

Rescuing biodiversity

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.

Who What

Why

Our challenge

What

Our solution

What our solution

Mainstreaming biodiversity to limit pressures

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.

State actors

Private sector

Civil society organizations

Indigenous people

Local communities

Citizens

Why Where

What

Our solution

How

Our vision

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Establishing voluntary commitments to be shared and implemented by relevant stakeholders as a complement to the enforcement of the legal framework.

How Our Vision

Promoting sectoral commitments to rescue biodiversity

Our goal is to stop biodiversity decline by 2030 and to restore biodiversity by 2050.

Strategy

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.

Benefits provided to the countries

Scientific diagnostic at both national and sectoral levels

Technical assistance in each country

Testing a science-based approach to sector-based commitments

Facilitating national dialogues

Support for the implementation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)

Capacity Building

Where Approach

How

Our vision

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Establishing voluntary commitments to be shared and implemented by relevant stakeholders as a complement to the enforcement of the legal framework.

Where

Our focus

Where our focus

Empowering 16 pilot countries

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

What Vision

Where

Our focus

Who

The partners

Who the partners

Facilitating the process

AFD

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.

Expertise France

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.

Contact:

pauline.teillac-deschamps@expertisefrance.fr

16 countries

Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Guinea, Guyana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Senegal, Tunisia, Uganda, and Vietnam.

IUCN

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.

Contact:

philippe.puydarrieux@iucn.org
florence.curet@iucn.org

WWF

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.

Contact:

rlapeyre@wwf.fr
aleroy@wwf.fr

Approach Why

Who

The partners

How

Our approach

How our approach

Multi-stakeholder dialogue and science-based assessment

A science and fact-based 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.

A participatory approach

• 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.

An inclusive approach

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.

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Rescuing biodiversity

Mainstreaming biodiversity to limit pressures

Promoting sectoral commitments to rescue biodiversity

Strategy

Benefits provided to the countries

Scientific diagnostic at both national and sectoral levels

Technical assistance in each country

Testing a science-based approach to sector-based commitments

Facilitating national dialogues

Support for the implementation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)

Capacity Building

Empowering 16 pilot countries

Facilitating the process

AFD

Expertise France

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16 countries

IUCN

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WWF

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Multi-stakeholder dialogue and science-based assessment

A science and fact-based approach

A participatory approach

An inclusive approach

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