IUCN Position paper for CBD SBSTTA28-SBI7

IUCN’s Main Messages

While it is concerning that the world is not on track to achieve the targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) by 2030, the global report on collective progress, provides sufficient evidence to inform the policy adjustments, resource allocations and strategies to increase ambition and accelerate implementation.

With this information, IUCN urges the Subsidiary Bodies to send practical recommendations to the COP, translating diagnosis into decision.

IUCN offers the following messages for consideration by Parties:
 

• Updating the NBSAPs remain crucial to address information gaps. IUCN encourages Parties that have yet to do so to do it, ensuring it follows an inclusive and participatory process, and to recognize subnational governments, cities and other local authorities as essential partners in the “whole-of-government” and “whole-of-society” approach to implementing the Framework.
• Strengthen the reporting on contributions of actors other than governments, not just documenting their commitments, including through improved interoperability between national and subnational biodiversity information systems.
• Addressing capacity gaps needs well-resourced regional and subregional technical and scientific cooperation support centres and increased uptake of the long-term strategic framework for capacity building and development.
• The monitoring framework needs continued technical work to improve metadata, incorporate advances in data, knowledge and methods, however considering the limited time remaining until 2030, and the preliminary information on the use of the indicators, the immediate focus should be on increasing its uptake and implementation by Parties rather than changing it.
• IUCN recently adopted a policy on synthetic biology in relation to nature conservation and invites Parties to take it into account when implementing the thematic action plan.
• IUCN welcomes the draft global guidance on the sustainable management of wildlife applicable to multiple species and practices and encourages Parties to draw on it in developing and revising national policies and legislation.
• The Programme of Work on Protected Areas has been instrumental in advancing in-situ conservation. While an update is warranted to better align it with the KMGBF, and Target 3 in particular, IUCN stresses that the most important outcome should be to reinforce and renew the commitment to its implementation.
• Considering the uneven implementation of the KMGBF across biomes, synergies between the CBD marine work and other ocean biodiversity related processes in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction is of the utmost importance. IUCN supports the recommendation to establish an informal advisory group on work on marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction.
• IUCN remains committed to providing guidance and supporting implementation of the KMGBF and its monitoring framework.