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Dr Lawrence Jones-Walters ECNC-European centre for Nature Conservation

Background: The challenge for delivering the 2020 vision for biodiversity in the EECCA region Expert Workshop Gabala, Azerbaijan: 5-6 July 2010. Dr Lawrence Jones-Walters ECNC-European centre for Nature Conservation. A new Vision.

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Dr Lawrence Jones-Walters ECNC-European centre for Nature Conservation

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  1. Background: The challenge for delivering the 2020 vision for biodiversity in the EECCA region Expert Workshop Gabala, Azerbaijan: 5-6 July 2010 Dr Lawrence Jones-Walters ECNC-European centre for Nature Conservation

  2. A new Vision • January 2010, the European Commission presented a series of options for a European Union biodiversity policy vision and target beyond 2010 • Recognising the urgent need to reverse the trends of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, on 26 March 2010 the European Council endorsed the long-term biodiversity vision and the 2020 headline target adopted by the Environment Council on 15 March 2010.

  3. Vision The vision • 'By 2050 European Union biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides – its natural capital – are protected, valued and appropriately restored for biodiversity's intrinsic value and for their essential contribution to human wellbeing and economic prosperity, and so that catastrophic changes caused by the loss of biodiversity are avoided'.

  4. The Target The headline target • 'Halting the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystem services in the EU by 2020, and restoring them in so far as feasible, while stepping up the EU contribution to averting global biodiversity loss'.

  5. The Challenge? Regional targets • Strategy and planning • Protected areas • Protected species (endemics) • Genetic resources • Sustainable development - integrating land use • Business and biodiversity • Climate change • Flexible and durable • Ecosystem services • Stakeholder involvement

  6. The Issues • Regional targets • Strategy and planning • Protected areas • Protected species (endemics) • Genetic resources • Sustainable development - integrating land use • Business and biodiversity • Climate change • Flexible and durable • Ecosystem services • Stakeholder involvement • Monitoring in EECCA • Local market development • Water management • Mountain areas development • Connectivity out of PAs ecological network • Sectoral integration • Increasing political will • Trans-boundary and regional cooperation • Efficient management of biodiversity • Population growth • Poverty alleviation • Food security • Property rights • Application of scientific knowledge • Green economics • Education and public awareness

  7. Inventing the wheel • Intuitive (threats) • Actual (current strategy and policy) • Liege • CBD • …etc

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