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Once in ten years:
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inspirational.....
The Strategic Plan for
Biodiversity
2011-2020
• Take effective and
urgent action to halt the
loss of biodiversity to
ensure that by 2020
ecosystems are resilient
and continue to provide
essential services,
thereby securing the
planet’s variety of life,
and contributing to
human well-being, and
poverty eradication;
The world’s protected areas:
• Cover >20% of the earth and
represent one of the most
universal collective natural
resource decisions made in
history;
• Involve unique and diverse
governance and demonstrate
the means for humanity to
achieve development that is
sustainable;
The world’s protected areas:
• Protect the foundation of
life and enable naturebased solutions to
profound challenges
facing the planet and
inspire hope for the
future.
An example:
Protected areas in
Colombia:
• cover 10% of
country
• provides 50% of
Colombia’s water
• Generates 20% of
hydro power
Challenged by
• Grazing and fire
management
• Climate change
The 8 million people in Bogotá, Colombia derive 80%
of water from one area - Chingaza National Park
Governments and agencies have developed sustainable
financing mechanisms for watershed protection and
securing quality supply (source: The Nature Conservancy)
Users
Providers
$
Water
Fund
CLEAN
WATER
$
Inspiring solutions in eight streams
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Reaching conservation goals
Responding to climate change
Improving health and well-being
Supporting human life
Reconciling development challenges
Enhancing the diversity and quality of
governance
• Respecting indigenous and traditional
knowledge and culture
• Inspiring a new generation
Reflected in four cross-cutting themes
• Marine
• World Heritage
• Capacity development
• A New Social Compact
“at least 17% of terrestrial and 10% marine”
17 % target for terrestrial protection
18%
16%
15.4%
Percentage protected
14%
12%
10 % target for marine
10%
8.4 % areas
within
national
jurisdiction
8%
6%
4%
3.4 %
global
ocean
2%
0%
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2014
“areas of particular importance for
conservation of biodiversity ”
Protection of Alliance for Zero
Extinction sites
Protection of
Important Bird Areas
“effectively and equitably managed”
Kathy MacKinnon
CBD & Climate
75%
basic
14%
Inadequate
11%
sound
The IUCN Green List of Protected Areas
IUCN Green List of Protected Areas: setting
a new international standard for quality in
PAs
Progress:
Next steps:
• Leading countries Italy, France,
Spain, China, Colombia, Kenya,
Korea, Australia NSW
• 10 partner countries
• 25 ‘2nd tier’ countries
• 3 regions (Amazon,
Mediterranean, Micronesia)
• New partnerships (CI, FSC,
WWF, CBD Sec)
• Finalize Global GLPA Standard
• Propose nominations, strong
expert role for WCPA
• Robust assurance model
developed
• Marketing and PR
• Launch 1st round of Green List
PAs in Sydney
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Green List Standard
• GLPA Pillars
The high level organizing principles
• Criteria
The globally consistent requirements that
any protected area must meet in relation to
each of the four GLPA Pillars
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Indicators + means of verification
The elements that are assessed on
the ground to determine whether
each Criterion is being met.
This structure is intended to provide for
global consistency as well as jurisdiction
level flexibility.
Four pillars
Pillar 4: Outcomes
Successful
conservation of
natural values
Social equity
Pillar 1:
Pillar 2:
Pillar 3:
Sound
planning
Equitable
governance
Effective
management
Compatibility with IUCN Protected Area Definition
ISEAL – Global Association of Sustainability
Standards
• Strengthen sustainability
standards systems
• Works with business,
governments, producers and
other stakeholders.
• Ensuring credibility
• Assurance comprises all planned
systematic activities to provide
confidence among stakeholders.
Accreditation Services International
• Assurance Unit of the Forest Stewardship
Council but now independent
• Services 5 leading environmental and social
standards
• Global team with background in aquatic and
terrestrial natural resource management,
multi-stakeholder processes and auditing
• Advises standards on the design of effective
and inclusive assurance processes
• Provides standards with feedback on the
implementation “on the ground”
THE PROMISE OF SYDNEY:
Catalyzing transformational change
• Find better and fairer ways to conserve
natural and cultural diversity, involving
governments, businesses and citizens in
establishing and managing parks;
• Inspire people around the world
and across generations to
reconnect with nature;
• Demonstrate nature’s solutions to our
planet’s challenges such as climate change,
health, food and water security.
The Promise of Sydney
• Transformative solutions at the level of policy,
engagement and practice for parks, people and
planet to accelerate implementation
• A capacity-development plan of action that
supports professionalism for protected areas
• A web-based resource of case studies embedded
in communities of practice
• Principles for a new social compact for equitable
and just conservation;
• Leadership initiatives, promises and
announcements for implementation.
Timeline of international events
What can we do together?
• Help to communicate how
biodiversity and protected
areas can contribute to naturebased solutions for sustainable
development
• Inform World Leaders’
Dialogues in Sydney
• Help identify entry points for
policy and public funding
initiatives
• Contribute to capacity
development within and
between sectors
• Help identify national and
sectoral commitments to
contribute to the Promise
Sydney