Annual Report 2010-11 - Global Invasive Species Programme - GISP

DIVERSITAS at the interfacebetween science and policymaking: Contribution tothe work of ConventionsDIVERSITAS is playing an increasingly important role at the interfacebetween science and policy. In 2010, it contributed actively to the workof the CBD, and together with the Earth System Science Partnership, alsocollaborated to the work of the Convention on Climate Change, the UNFCCC.Convention onBiological Diversity1-Contribution to the evaluationof progress against the 2010biodiversity targets: The ThirdGlobal Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-3)DIVERSITAS-bioDISCOVERY (P Leadley,H Pereira) together with UNEP-WCMCcoordinated a synthesis and criticalanalysis of existing global and regionalbiodiversity scenarios as a contributionto GBO-3, which served as a scientificbasis to support the decision by CBDdelegates that the 2010 biodiversitytargets had not been reached. See thisreport page 27.2- Contribution to the StrategicPlan for Biodiversity 2011-2020CBD-COP10 adopted in Nagoya, Japan,in October 2010, the Strategic Planfor Biodiversity 2011-2020and the Aichi BiodiversityTargets (the “20 targets for 2020”), amajor document that will shape thebiodiversity policy landscape for thenext 10 years.DIVERSITAS contributed to thediscussions on the 2020 targets, in thefollowing ways:PAPERSMace et al. 2010. Biodiversity targetsafter 2010. COSUST. 2(1):3-8; acontribution from the SC-DIVERSITAS.Larigauderie, Mace and Mooney. 2010.Colour-coded targets would help clarifybiodiversity priorities, Letter to Nature.464:160.Perrings et al. 2010. Ecosystem servicesand the 2020 targets. Science. 330:323-324.Perrings et al. 2011. Ecosystemservices and targets setting for theconservation and sustainable use ofbiodiversity. Frontiers in Ecology andthe Environment. In pressPresentations/workshops/side eventsJanuary 2010:Presentation of the views of thescientific community on 2020 targets(A Larigauderie), as part of theformal CBD consultation processon biodiversity targets (Trondheim,Norway)February 2010:PreCOP10 meeting (with Japan Ministryof Environment and Secretariat CBD)(Nagoya, Japan)March 2010:ecoSERVICES workshop “Targets and30 DIVERSITAS I ANNUAL REPORT 2010