This month's U.N. biodiversity talks in Montreal aim to hammer out a new, global agreement. But this isn't the first time governments have tried to halt environmental loss through agreed targets.
In fact, many of the 24 conservation targets under discussion now aim to avoid past mistakes and improve on the world's last set of conservation goals - the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.WHAT WERE THE TARGETS?
After parties adopted the Aichi targets, they were expected to devise their own national biodiversity strategies that would mimic the goals laid out by Aichi. Nearly all parties created these strategies, but most were never fully implemented.The most notable Aichi objective — and one of the few to include a numerical goal — aimed to protect or conserve 17% of all land and inland waters and 10% of the ocean by the end of the decade.
About 10% of the targets saw no significant progress, the assessment found. Six of the targets, including the land and ocean conservation target, were deemed "partially achieved." "Aichi was made of aspirational targets, which was great for ... enabling people to do a lot, but not great for communication," said Basile van Havre, who is helping mediate negotiations on the new targets on behalf of the CBD.
"Because that is what made the Aichi framework so ineffective, and that's what generated these negotiation processes."A lack of financing to help developing countries meet the Aichi goals was also an obstacle to their success - a point that has led negotiators to include financing plans within the draft being negotiated at the Montreal talks.
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