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Tag: Biodiversity
Will global spatial planning save the world’s biodiversity? (No, it won’t.) For those engaged in developing the new Global Biodiversity Framework: four lessons from the past, and a warning for the future
Will global spatial planning save the world’s biodiversity? Simon Counsell takes a look at some of the lessons from the past where spatial planning led to disastrous outcomes for biodiversity.
CBD Alliance urges rejection of draft Global Biodiversity Framework, including 30% protection target: “Major step backwards in global biodiversity policy”
CBD Alliance letter opposing the Zero Draft Global Biodiversity Framework and 30×30.
Open letter to the lead authors of ‘Protecting 30% of the Planet for Nature’: “This paper reads to us like a proposal for a new model of colonialism”
An open letter, signed by authors from multiple institutions, highlights the problems with the working paper, “Protecting 30% of the planet for nature”.
Forest Scientists: REDD “is not low hanging fruit” and has potential for “catastrophic” impacts on biodiversity
A Global Forest Expert Panel is currently working on an assessment of the relationship between biodiversity, forest management and REDD. The Panel presented its key findings at the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Hyderabad, India last week. A briefing note about the assessment is headlined, “REDD+ May Cut Both Ways”.