Structure of GBO-5
The GBO-5 is structured in three sections:
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Introduction: Recaps conclusions of GBO-3 and GBO-4, places biodiversity conservation and protection in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement.
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Biodiversity in 2020: Provides a report card on the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, identifying shortcomings and areas of achievement and success; builds on the IPBES Global Assessment with recent research and updated indicators, illustrated by examples from the latest National Reports to the CBD, and a wide variety of additional sources.
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Transitions to a better future: Identifies a set of ambitious, interlinked and essential changes to reach sustainability; outlines key transitions required in land use, food systems, agriculture, fisheries, cities, climate action, and fresh water; Includes examples which, replicated, scaled up, and supported by economy-wide measures, would support progress toward the agreed vision: living in harmony with nature by 2050.
Expected impacts
GBO-5 will:
- Update the evidence-base to inform policy making for the decade ahead
- Provide a final report card on the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets (2010-2020)
- Demonstrate the close links and dependencies between achieving objectives for nature, climate change, and sustainable development
- Raise awareness of the importance of transformational multi-sectoral policies and governance structures, including the effects that policies and other indirect drivers have at a global scale and options to improve trans-regional policymaking.
Audiences
GBO-5 is presented with a wide audience of readers in mind, including government and business leaders, civil society groups, indigenous peoples and communities.
GBO-5 history and timeline
2010: GBO-3, evaluated progress against targets to 2010, informed a new decadal global framework and strategic plan
2014: GBO-4, mid-term progress assessment
February 2020: Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (OEWG2020) meets in Rome
September 2020: GBO-5 evaluates Aichi Targets (2010-2020), informs post-2020 global framework agreement
February 2021 (tentative) OEWG2020, Cali, Colombia
17–30 May, 2021: CBD 15th Conference of the Parties, Kunming, China
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GBO-5: Launch and News Conference
Location: CBD Secretariat, Montreal
Date: 15 September 2020
09:15h US Eastern Time (13:15 GMT / 14:15 in UK, 15:15 CET)
GBO-5 accreditation: Media, NGOs
Interested reporters who have not already done so are invited to apply for accreditation.
Accreditation provides advance access to the embargoed GBO-5 news release, Summary for Policymakers, full report, other media resources.
This means you agree to neither publish, air, nor circulate any of these materials in any form prior to the embargo being lifted, on Tuesday 15 September at 9:15h ET.
You may approach third parties for comment during the embargo period but only if they agree, in turn, to abide by the same restrictions.
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About the UN Convention on Biological Diversity
Opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and entering into force in December 1993, the Convention on Biological Diversity is an international treaty for the conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of the components of biodiversity and the equitable sharing of the benefits derived from the use of genetic resources. With 196 Parties, the Convention has near universal participation among countries.
The Convention seeks to address all threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services, including threats from climate change, through scientific assessments, the development of tools, incentives and processes, the transfer of technologies and good practices and the full and active involvement of relevant stakeholders including indigenous and local communities, youth, NGOs, women and the business community.
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing are supplementary agreements to the Convention. The Cartagena Protocol, which entered into force on 11 September 2003, seeks to protect biological diversity from the potential risks posed by living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology.
To date, 173 Parties have ratified the Cartagena Protocol. The Nagoya Protocol aims at sharing the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources in a fair and equitable way, including by appropriate access to genetic resources and by appropriate transfer of relevant technologies. It entered into force on 12 October 2014 and to date has been ratified by 128 Parties.
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