 Four Steps for the Earth: mainstreaming the post-2020 Global Biodiversity FrameworkE.J. Milner-Gulland, Prue Addison, William Arlidge, Julia Baker, Hollie Booth, Thomas Brooks, Joseph Bull, Michael Burgass, Jonathan Ekstrom and Sophus zu Ermgassen No gjps6, SocArXiv from Center for Open Science Abstract: The upcoming meeting of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the new Global Biodiversity Framework, represent an opportunity to transform humanity's relationship with nature. Restoring nature while meeting human needs requires a bold vision, but this will only succeed if biodiversity conservation can be mainstreamed in society. Here, we present an overarching framework that could support this mainstreaming: the Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy. This novel framing places the well-established four-step Mitigation Hierarchy for mitigating and compensating the impacts of developments on biodiversity (1: Avoid, 2: Minimise, 3: Restore, 4: Offset, towards a target such as No Net Loss of biodiversity) within a broader framing that encompasses proactive conservation actions. The Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy supports both the choice of actions to conserve and restore nature, and evaluation of the effectiveness of those actions, in a consistent manner across sectors and scales. As such it has the potential to guide actions towards a sustainable future for people and nature. Date: 2020-06-02 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:osf:socarx:gjps6 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in SocArXiv from Center for Open Science |
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