As the world responds to a zoonotic pandemic, parties to United Nations conventions on biodiversity and climate are committing to ambitious new targets for area-based conservation. This theme will prepare the Commission to help realize the ambitions of these new commitments, alongside a shift from intentions to demonstrable outcomes. Among others, the 30x30 target (of the CBD Global Biodiversity Framework) requires a radical rethink of approach; in theory WCPA could be providing technical support to a third of the planet’s surface. The expert-driven volunteer system of WCPA that has served well until now will no longer be sufficient and a major scaling up is urgently needed. This includes but is not limited to natural solutions (a.k.a. nature-based solutions, NbS), with special attention to issues of good governance, legitimate rights and social equity. Area-based conservation measures such as protected and conserved areas are critically important mechanisms for ecosystem protection, management and restoration, and thus a key category of NbS approaches. 

This remit is intentionally broad, open to respond to the radical change that science tells us is required.

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