Category: Services and Support

See below for a collection of presentations hosted by the Task Force during 2024.

Eliminate, minimize, reduce and or mitigate the impacts of invasive alien species on biodiversity and ecosystem services by identifying and managing pathways of the introduction of alien species, preventing the introduction and establishment of priority invasive alien species, reducing the rates of introduction and establishment of other known or potential invasive alien species by at least 50 per cent by 2030, and eradicating or controlling invasive alien species, especially in priority sites, such as islands.

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Ensure that the use, harvesting and trade of wild species is sustainable, safe and legal, preventing overexploitation, minimizing impacts on non-target species and ecosystems, and reducing the risk of pathogen spillover, applying the ecosystem approach, while respecting and protecting customary sustainable use by indigenous peoples and local communities.

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We assist with the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework by supporting the development of IUCN position papers and information documents

Explore our policy support archive below:

SBSTTA-26

The 26th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice.

• INF document 19 ‘Guidance on needs related to implementing the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework‘ was prepared for SBSTTA-26 (2024)

Developing the post-2020 biodiversity framework

The Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework Task Force countributed to IUCN position papers and information documents to support the negotiation process towards the Aichi targers and the development of the species-related targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework.

• We prepared an information document on: ‘Potential elements, indicators and milestones for a new species-focussed target; this is proposed without prejudice to IUCN’s final position on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework‘ for the 23rd meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice which took place in Montreal, Canada from 25 to 29 November 2019.
• We prepared an information document on: ‘Supporting achievement of Aichi Biodiversity Target 12 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020‘ for the 22nd meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, which took place in Montreal, Canada from 2 to 7 July 2018.

The Task Force supports the development of the Species Threat Abatement and Restoration Metric (STAR).

This tool that can help governments, industry, and civil society identify actions with positive conservation impact for threatened species.

Ensure urgent management actions to halt human induced extinction of known threatened species and for the recovery and conservation of species, in particular threatened species, to significantly reduce extinction risk, as well as to maintain and restore the genetic diversity within and between populations of native, wild and domesticated species to maintain their adaptive potential, including through in situ and ex situ conservation and sustainable management practices, and effectively manage human-wildlife interactions to minimize human-wildlife conflict for coexistence.

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