Seizing the Landscape Opportunity to Catalyse Transformative Biodiversity Governance

Abstract

Nature and biodiversity are being lost worldwide, and the capacity of ecosystems to provide vital contributions to people is deteriorating. Most of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets for 2020 under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have not been achieved, and, if the trends of the last decades persist, biodiversity will continue to decline. Policies, commitments and actions aimed at halting further loss immediately and restoring biodiversity and ecosystems are needed more than ever, in order to still be able to achieve the agreed 2050 Vision of the CBD of living in harmony with nature.