Quick links:
Invasive Alien Species, 8 April 2024
DSI, 9 April 2024
Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity, 10 April 2024
Concept Note
Online session, 3 May 2024
UTC-13:00, JST- 22:00, CST-21:00, IST-18:30, CAT/CET- 15:00, EDT- 9:00, PET- 8:00
INDICATORS AND TARGETS OF THE GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FRAMEWORK
Implementing the twenty three targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) needs the understanding of what each target means and the complex interrelationship among them, but also the implications for society. In this online forum we analyze some of the targets may be particularly challenging to achieve, and which reflect the two main goals of reducing threats to biodiversity and meeting people’s needs through sustainable use and benefit-sharing. Still targets will only be achieved when the enabling conditions (mainstreaming BD into policies, broader participation, etc) are recognized and met.
Video of the webinar
Coordinator & Moderator:
Lily Rodriguez, CIMA, former IUBS Executive Committee Member
Co-Moderator:
Suneetha Subramanian, Biodiversity and Society Programme at UNU-IAS
Invited speakers
- James Williams co-chair, AHTEG on indicators (Joint Nature Conservation Committee, UK) “Implementing the Monitoring Framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework – challenges to measuring progress”
- Alice Hughes (U of Hong-Kong) “The monitoring framework from the scientific perspective, overview and gaps”
- Benjamin Stuch (CESR, Uni. Kassel) “Systems methods for analyzing trade‑offs between food security and conserving biodiversity – and how it can shed ligth on monitoring Target 1”
- Suneetha Subramanian (UNU, Tokyo) “Acknowledging diversity and convergences in types of values and priorities among stakeholders”
- Jillian Campbell (Head of Monitoring, Review and Reporting, UN CBD) “National monitoring to inform nation action for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework”.
Questions addressed during the webinar:
The objective of the webinar is to motivate participation of scientists in the process of shaping the pathway for implementation of this new strategic plan through 2030 and engaging in the development of science contributing to biodiversity policies.
In particular, in this webinar, we will link different studies and perspectives to targets and indicators, aiming to understand relations and trade-offs between conservation and people’s needs; explore elements for monitoring the implementation of some targets of the GBF (target 1, 3, 10, 22).
Each presenter will have 15 to 20 minutes, and there will be time for questions
Report of the session on Indicators:
Learn more about the panelists:
Jillian Campbell works for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity where she is responsible for monitoring of the post-2020 global biodiversity
framework, including national action planning. Prior to that she led the methodological work on the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators under UN Environment Programme (UNEP) custodianship and coordinated UNEP’s work on environment statistics capacity building. In order to improve the compilation of environmental data and the use of environmental data and information for analysis she has been actively working to elaborate how a digital ecosystem for the environment could be achieved, including through new techniques and data sources.
Alice Hughes is a conservation biologist based in Asia. Alice holds board positions for around 7 ecological societies and 2 NGOS and works through these to build conservation capacity in upcoming conservationists and to try to implement conservation science and help guide conservation on regional scales. Her research aims to understand patterns of biodiversity and drivers of biodiversity change, with an aim to inform more rigorous & appropriate conservation. She and her team use a wide variety of approaches and tools for anything from understanding species biogeography, to developing monitoring tools or understanding interactions. She currently also has projects on threatened ecosystems (especially karst) to understand biodiversity patterns & develop effective conservation & management approaches. Alice Hughes presentation is available here
Lily Rodriguez is a Peruvian herpetologist, an expert in biodiversity conservation. She is currently Secretary of the Centre for the Conservation, Research and Management of Natural Areas – Blue Cordillera (CIMA), of which she is one of the founders. She is also involved in several programmes of the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (CBD): Access to genetic resources and benefit sharing; Global Taxonomy Initiative; Climate Change and Biodiversity. She was a member of the IUBS Executive Committee from 2009 to 2019. She is in charge of organising the scientific forum for IUBS in relation to the CBD. She studied biology at the National Agrarian University La Molina in Lima, Peru. In 1991, she obtained a PhD in Zoology from Pierre and Marie Curie University (now Sorbonne University), France.
Benjamin Stuch, is a senior scientist Senior scientist and on Environmental Systems Science, Environmental Management in the GRID research group at at the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), Kassel University, Germany. His research interests include interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to assess trade-offs and synergies in achieving sustainable development targets. His thematic foci lay on land use and climate change as well as their interactions with biodiversity and food security.
Benjamin Stuch presentation is available here.
Suneetha Subramanian, has more than 15 years of experience in international and sub-national research and capacity building activities relating to biodiversity and human well-being with a focus on equity; traditional knowledge; linking policy goals to local priorities and community well-being; assessment of changes to ecosystems and human well-being; socio-ecological resilience; and joint implementation of policies and actions on health and biodiversity at the community level. Dr. Subramanian has been involved as a coordinating lead author in various assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
James Williams, James Williams, a Senior International Biodiversity Advisor here at JNCC, has recently been selected as one of six representatives from the ‘Western Europe and Others Group’ for the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. James has played a pivotal role in the development of the UK Biodiversity Indicators, having been involved in the process since their inception back in 2006. James was also instrumental in the development of the Streamlined European Biodiversity indicators. In addition, he has long-standing experience of writing and editing reports on UK implementation of multilateral Environmental Agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, Convention on Migratory Species and Convention on Wetlands of International Importance.
