Nocito, Emily S. and Crespo, Guillermo Ortuño (2024) Achieving the 30×30 target through the global ocean treaty. Greenpeace Protect The Ocean.
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In 2022, the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), which aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. Target 3 of the GBF is to ‘Ensure and enable that by 2030 at least 30 per cent … of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, are effectively conserved and managed through ecologically representative, well-connected and equitably governed systems of protected areas’. This is known as the 30×30 target. At the current rate of protection, the 30% goal will not be reached until 2107. The ocean and seabed in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) – making up 64% of the global ocean – represent Earth’s largest commons and are home to thousands of unique species and a wide range of ecosystems, from dynamic pelagic systems to highly fragile habitats thousands of metres below the surface. Due to the lack of comprehensive governance, less than 1% of ABNJ are fully or highly protected, with the remainder vulnerable to overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution and climate change. The Global Ocean Treaty has emerged as a potential framework to address these challenges by, among other means, facilitating the establishment of area-based management tools (ABMTs), including marine protected areas (MPAs), in ABNJ. One of the Treaty’s objectives is to create an ecologically representative network of MPAs in ABNJ. It therefore represents a critical new legal vehicle to help achieve the 30×30 target. Without a high seas MPA network, 83% of marine areas under national jurisdiction would need to be protected to achieve the 30×30 goal – but this outcome would be neither socially balanced nor ecologically representative.
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Keywords: | Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Biodiversity, Overfishing, Conservation, Sustainable Use, Biodiversity Strategies, Action Plans, Mitigation, Climate Change, Pollutions |
| Subjects: | Biodiversity |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2024 05:43 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 05:43 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/20795 |
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