"Biodiversity targets" refers to specific goals or objectives that are set to protect and conserve the variety of life in different ecosystems. These targets aim to ensure that plants, animals, and other organisms can thrive and maintain a healthy environment.
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There has been some progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the
Aichi Biodiversity Targets in Europe and Central Asia, e.g. in terms of the area under protection or in mainstreaming biodiversity across government and society.
The purpose is to increase conservation action in the wider countryside and so help meet biodiversity targets
Governments agreed on actions that will accelerate implementation of
global biodiversity targets, and enhance the linkage of the biodiversity agenda with other global agendas including the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement.
Broad changes in the form of habitat loss because of large - scale human impacts from an expanding industrialized global economy also represent potential risks to languages and their associated cultures -LSB-...] Our analysis reveals that for many conservation priorities and languages, efforts to maintain particular
biodiversity targets in particular locations could benefit one or more languages in the same place, and vice versa.
It presents the results of spatial analyses that can assist decision - makers in planning for REDD + in a way that generates multiple benefits, and explores the possible contributions that REDD + can make to the achievement of other policy goals such as the Aichi
Biodiversity Targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the objectives of Peru's National Climate Change Strategy.
A group of scientists have developed a three - point plan to ensure the world's protected areas meet
new biodiversity targets set by the 193 signatory nations of the Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD).
A key theme of the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 12) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that took place two months ago was
integrating biodiversity targets into other parts of the United Nations development process.
UNEP News Center: The Convention on Biological Diversity closed the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties today with Governments committing to step up actions to achieve, by the end of the decade, the Aichi
Biodiversity Targets agreed four years ago, and contribute to the sustainable development agenda.
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Green Shoots has three demonstration projects in Cheshire, North Wales and the Somerset Levels where a project officer works with BASC members and local conservation partners to
meet biodiversity targets.
This is in line with the international agreement, the
Aichi Biodiversity Target, which refers to the importance of ecosystem service mapping methodologies.
«Achievement of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011 - 2020 and its Aichi
Biodiversity Targets, and the Paris Agreement on climate change, all depend on the health and vitality of our natural environment in all its diversity and complexity.
«We have missed our 2010
biodiversity target, obviously,» European Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik told a meeting of environmental ministers at which the European Union set out a new plan to protect animal and plant species.
In 2010, the Convention met in Aichi, Japan, and agreed a set of targets, called the Aichi
Biodiversity Targets.
«This will give the Aichi
Biodiversity Targets the necessary push,» said Carolina Hazin, BirdLife's global biodiversity policy coordinator in a statement.
They looked at two of the 20
biodiversity targets: preventing extinction and improving the status of declining species, and protecting important habitat.
The Facility would simultaneously contribute to the implementation of the Aichi
Biodiversity Targets (CBD), the Land Degradation Neutrality targets (UNCCD), and the Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans (UNFCCC).
We endorse the Kobe Call for Action for Biodiversity and reiterate our commitment to increase our efforts to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss significantly in order to achieve the globally agreed 2010
Biodiversity Target, including by reducing threats from the illicit trade in wildlife.
The trees are predominantly planted in school grounds, reserves and managed woodland where they will live their natural lifespan and meet
their biodiversity targets.
While there has been an increase in the societal responses to biodiversity loss, in most cases this will not be sufficient to achieve
the biodiversity targets by 2020, let alone to realise the...
It also highlights the potential for synergies between REDD +, the Aichi
Biodiversity Targets and the National Biodiversity Action Plan.
All trees that are planted are native to the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, and will be carefully planted and managed to live their natural lifespan and meet
their biodiversity targets.