A role for the Regional Seas Programme under the post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Environmental Monitoring and Governance, Island and Ocean Ecosystems
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Adelaide, Maria
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Gunn, Vikki
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Johnson, David E
2021
Despite a decade of global efforts to protect and restore biodiversity, not one of the 20 Aichi Biodiversity targets was fully achieved in 2020 deadline and biodiversity loss continues at an unprecedented rate. The convention on Biological Diversity's post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF) is the ambitious successor of the CBD's 2011-2020 Strategic Plan for Biodiversity. Development of the GBF and its associated monitoring and reporting framework is on-going, involving a comprehensive preparatory process.