Climate Change, Global Governance, Sustainability Conservation on the Move

With the Aichi Targets mostly unachieved and the world working to adopt a new framework for biodiversity conservation, the crisis of species loss continues. The 2019 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment warned that humanity was losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate, such that one million species could go extinct in the near future. In 2020, the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS) confirmed this trend, reporting to its thirteenth meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP 13) that 73% of its Appendix I-listed species and 48% of its Appendix II-listed species were in decline.

The loss of biodiversity and the ecosystems, both of which sustain humanity, is nothing short of an existential crisis. We must ask what countries can do to create better solutions to this complex problem and how can they build on successes once identified. What exactly is working?  

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