Five Steps to Inject Transformative Change into the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

The Five Global Biodiversity-Related Conventions

Plenary In Plenary, experts discussed complementary options to address ABS within the framework of the CBD. CoChair Jorge Medaglia emphasised that identifying a package of alternative approaches to address countries’ needs is considered to be one of the Panel’s main outputs. He suggested that the first part of the discussion focus on identifying guidelines, while other complementary measures, s...

Towards the global monitoring of biodiversity change.

Governments have set the ambitious target of reducing biodiversity loss by the year 2010. The scientific community now faces the challenge of assessing the progress made towards this target and beyond. Here, we review current monitoring efforts and propose a global biodiversity monitoring network to complement and enhance these efforts. The network would develop a global sampling programme for ...

Evolution and Biodiversity: the evolutionary basis of biodiversity and its potential for adaptation to global change

Biodiversity has a key role in maintaining healthy ecosystems and thereby sustaining ecosystem services to the ever-growing human population. To get an idea of the range of ecosystem services that we use daily, think of how much energy and time it would cost to make Mars (or some other Earth-like planet) hospitable for human life, for example, in terms of atmosphere regulation, freshwater produ...

Evolution and Biodiversity: the evolutionary basis of biodiversity and its potential for adaptation to global change

Biodiversity has a key role in maintaining healthy ecosystems and thereby sustaining ecosystem services to the ever-growing human population. To get an idea of the range of ecosystem services that we use daily, think of how much energy and time it would cost to make Mars (or some other Earth-like planet) hospitable for human life, for example, in terms of atmosphere regulation, freshwater produ...

Introduction. Global change and biodiversity: future challenges.