Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and the UN Millennium Declaration
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| Autor(es) | Hyvarinen, J. McNeill, C. |
| Fecha | 2003 |
| Tipo de referencia | papel |
| Páginas | 7 pp. |
| Editorial | UNDP, NY |
Resumen
This paper begins to examine the close and critical relationships among: biodiversity and ecosystem services; the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD); and the goals set out in the UN Millennium Declaration, in particular the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The strong international consensus behind the Millennium Declaration makes it a unique and powerful basis for development cooperation. There is dawning recognition among decision-makers that biodiversity and ecosystem services are central to achieving the MDGs. This has created extremely important opportunities: biodiversity specialists can make a decisive contribution to the UN strategy for the MDGs, while the MDGs offer a gateway opportunity to advance conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. The ‘WEHAB’ framework launched by the Secretary-General in May 2002 reinforced recognition of biodiversity, creating further opportunities. The UN strategy for the MDGs has four main elements: the Millennium Project; the Millennium Campaign; Country-Level Monitoring; and Country-Level Operations of the UN agencies. The MDGs come from Section III (development and poverty eradication) of the Millennium Declaration. The Secretary-General’s Road Map, which presents a plan for achieving the goals set out in the Millennium Declaration, focuses on the MDGs, among other things providing an indicator framework. Ecosystem services such as soil protection, pollution control and water purification have great economic value. Ecosystems provide food, health care and income generation opportunities. The sharpest interface between conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and poverty reduction is at the local community level, which is also where ingenuity, learning and innovation can be found, as exemplified by the projects selected as finalists for the Equator Initiative awards in 2002 (seewww.EquatorInitiative.org). Of course, biodiversity also has an intrinsic value, as the Preamble to the CBD recognizes, and this is interwoven with cultural, spiritual and other human values. A key challenge now is how to ‘scale up’: how to capture the lessons generated by projects such as those recognized by the Equator Initiative and translate them into wider application at the policy-making level. Another immediate challenge concerns follow-up of WEHAB: this paper proposes that a top priority for biodiversity practitioners after WSSD is taking the “B” for biodiversity forward in ways that help achieve the MDGs.
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