The Global Biodiversity Framework’s ecosystem restoration target requires more clarity and careful legal interpretation
Bell-James, J.; Foster, R.; Shumway, N.; Lovelock, C.E.; Villarreal-Rosas, J.; Brown, C.J.; Andradi-Brown, D.A.; Saunders, M.I.; Waltham, N.J.; Fitzsimons, J.A. (2024). The Global Biodiversity Framework’s ecosystem restoration target requires more clarity and careful legal interpretation. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8(5): 840-841. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02389-6 In: Nature Ecology & Evolution. Springer Nature. ISSN 2397-334X, more |  |
| Authors | | Top | - Bell-James, J.
- Foster, R.
- Shumway, N.
- Lovelock, C.E., more
| - Villarreal-Rosas, J.
- Brown, C.J.
- Andradi-Brown, D.A.
| - Saunders, M.I.
- Waltham, N.J.
- Fitzsimons, J.A.
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| Abstract | With the passage of the one-year anniversary of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), substantial effort is still needed to progress Target 2 — the ‘restoration target’. The restoration target guides parties to “ensure that by 2030 at least 30 per cent of areas of degraded terrestrial, inland water, and marine and coastal ecosystems are under effective restoration, in order to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, ecological integrity and connectivity”. This target is a critical step towards upscaling global restoration, but almost every word of it provides scope for legal and ecological interpretation. This could result in markedly different on-the-ground outcomes for conservation once applied at a national level. |
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