Last Update: 22.10.2012

UN conference in Hyderabad successful

The 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was very successful. The focus was, as expected, on financing the Strategic Plan 2010-2020 and the Aichi targets. These strategic goals were the outcome of the previous COP and provide ambitious guidelines for international nature conservation. In Hyderabad the parties agreed to double the relevant funding by 2015, thereby making great progress towards achieving the goals.

Important advances were also made in marine conservation through the inclusion of large areas in the CBD database on ecologically or biologically significant marine areas.

The REDD+ programme for forest conservation and reforestation helped to achieve vital goals in forest and climate policy. There was general consensus that in future the work of the CBD should concentrate more on implementing adopted goals and decisions.