INTECOL 2013
Hitting the Target: Progress in Implementing the Nagoya 2020 Biodiversity Strategy
The BES and the UK Biodiversity Research Advisory Group (UK BRAG) are collaborating to run a workshop at INTECOL in 2013.
The session will consider the work currently ongoing in the UK, in Europe and internationally to meet the 2020 ‘Aichi’ targets. These targets were agreed by the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan, in 2010.
The challenge
How will we be able to assess, in 2020, whether signatories to the CBD have been successful in meeting the Aichi Targets? The development of robust, measurable indicators is vital, as is the development of means to analyse and process the data collected to track our progress.
This session will explore the efforts ongoing in the UK to meet national and European biodiversity targets and thereby our commitments to the Aichi Targets under the CBD.
The session will focus specifically on novel targets; those where new work has been developed in response to the Aichi Targets, either where the UK is leading the way or where researchers, practitioners and policy-makers can learn from experiences internationally.
Speakers
| Speaker | Topic | Aichi Target |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Matt Walpole, Head of Programme – Ecosystem Assessment, United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP WCMC) | The international context for UK efforts to meet national and European biodiversity targets | |
| Ian Dickie, Economics and the Environment Consultancy (Eftec) | Valuing biodiversity and natural capital | Target 2 |
| Professor Thomas Elmqvist, Theme leader: Urban social-ecological systems and globalisation, Stockholm Resilience Centre | Developing indicators to measure ecosystem resilience | Target 15 |
| Dr Tony Weighell, Programme Leaders, Overseas Territories, Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) | The UK’s impact on global biodiversity: can we measure or do we guess? | Target 4 |
| Dr Sybille van den Hove, Director and Partner, MEDIAN and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona | Enhancing knowledge exchange to meet the Aichi targets | Target 19 |
Further information about this session will appear here in due course.