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Table of Contents Ahmed djoghlAf irinA BoKovA mASAru oniShi United Nations Assistant Secretary General; Director-General, United Nations Educational, President, Japan Airlines .......................... 31 Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Scientific and Cultural Organization ............ 20 thomAS lovejoY Diversity ................................................. 2 helen clArK Chief biodiversity adviser to the President BAn Ki-moon Administrator, United Nations Development of the World Bank; Senior advisor to the Secretary-General, United Nations ................ 3 Programme; Former Prime Minister of president of the United Nations Foundation; Achim Steiner New Zealand ......................................... 21 President of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment ................ 32 United Nations Under-Secretary General; KAnayo f. nwAnze Executive Director, United Nations President, International Fund for Agricultural SArA oldfield Environment Programme ............................ 4 Development ......................................... 22 Secretary General, Botanic Gardens YoShihiKo nodA luc gnAcAdjA Conservation International ....................... 33 Prime Minister of Japan ............................. 5 Executive Secretary, United Nations jeffreY A. mcneelY jAmeS Alix michel Convention to Combat Desertification ......... 24 Senior Science Advisor, International Union for Conservation of Nature ........................ 34 President of the Republic of Seychelles .......... 6 juliA mArton-lefèvre john heritY lee hong-Koo Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature ............................ 25 Former Director, Biodiversity Convention Chairman of the Korean Organizing Office, Environment Canada ..................... 35 Committee for the 2012 IUCN World mAurice Strong Conservation Congress; Former Prime Former Executive Director, United Nations wen liAn ting Minister, Republic of Korea .......................... 7 Environment Programme .......................... 27 Ambassador, Permanent Representative felipe cAlderón liz dowdeSwell of Malaysia to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations .............. 36 President of Mexico .................................. 8 President and Chief Executive Officer, veit KoeSter jeAn chAreSt Council of Canadian Academies; Former Executive Director, United Nations External professor, Roskilde University; Premier ministre du Québec, Canada ............. 9 Environment Programme .......................... 28 Visiting Professor, United Nations BriAn mulroneY KlAuS töpfer University—Institute of Advanced Studies ..... 38 Former Prime Minister of Canada ............... 10 Former Executive Director, United Nations Nay htun gro hArlem BrundtlAnd Environment Programme .......................... 29 Research Professor, Stony Brook University, Former Prime Minister of Norway; PatricK weiten State University of New York; Former Former Director-General, World Health Deputy Executive Director, United Nations President of the Moselle General Council, Organization .......................................... 11 Environment Programme .......................... 39 France ................................................. 30 li gAnjie Vice Minister, Ministry of Environmental Protection, People’s Republic of China ......... 12 cAroline SpelmAn Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom ............... 13 gérAld tremBlay Maire de Montréal, Canada ....................... 14 luciAno ducci Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil ........................... 16 monique BArBut Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility ....................... 17 michel jArrAud Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization; UN-Water Chair-Elect ............. 19 Satoyama 4 1 Ahmed Djoghlaf, United Nations Assistant Secretary General; Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity Fulfilling our promise to our children, and to all the children of the world wenty years ago, at the United to the sustainable development question. well-defined, universally-accepted tar- Nations Conference on Environment The Convention on Biological Diversity is gets that are now accepted as the basis T and Development—the “Earth one of the main pillars of our future. for policies that protect biodiversity at Summit”, held in June 1992 in Rio de Of the 500 or so environmental con- local, national and global levels. With its Janeiro, the United Nations Convention ventions, the CBD is a unique multilat- Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, its Kuala on Biological Diversity (CBD) was opened eral environment treaty at the service of Lumpur Nagoya Supplementary Protocol for signature. It represented the strong the sustainable development agenda. It is on Liability and Redress, as well as the commitment of the international commu- first of all, a Rio Convention, thus incor- Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit- nity at the highest political level to save porating the principles of the Rio Decla- Sharing, it now has the tools needed to the diversity of life and build the founda- ration into a legally binding instrument. realise its three mutually supportive objec- tions for sustainable development. It has three mutually supportive objec- tives while contributing to the success- Ten years ago, in 2002, the World Sum- tives, namely conservation of biological ful implementation of the two other Rio mit on Sustainable Development was con- diversity, the sustainable use of biolog- Conventions, namely the United Nations vened in Johannesburg to review progress ical diversity, and the access to genetic Framework Convention on Climate Change made and to map out a way ahead towards resources and the fair and equitable shar- and the United Nations Convention to achieving the goal of sustainable devel- ing of the benefit arising for their utilisa- Combat Desertification. opment. In both the WEHAB concept and tion. It promotes the ecosystem approach Achieving the Aichi Targets by 2020 in the 2010 Biodiversity Target, biodiver- to protecting life on Earth and puts the is an obligatory first step if we are to ful- sity was recognised as one of the key well-being of mankind at the heart of its fill the longer-term 2050 vision adopted Achieving the Aichi Targets by 2020 is an obligatory first step if we are to fulfill the longer-term 2050 vision adopted in Nagoya of a world where ‘biodiversity is valued, conserved, restored and wisely used, maintaining ecosystem services, sustaining a healthy planet and delivering benefits essential for all people.’ © Claude Hamel elements for sustainable development, processes. It has 193 Parties and has in Nagoya of a world where “biodiversity with the full implementation of the CBD succeeded in forging a strategic partner- is valued, conserved, restored and wise- being seen as a sine qua non of realisa- ship with all major stakeholders including ly used, maintaining ecosystem services, tion of this future vision. local authorities, mayors, parliamentari- sustaining a healthy planet and delivering In June 2012 world leaders will once ans, business, indigenous people, non- benefits essential for all people.” again assemble in Rio de Janeiro at the governmental organizations, youth, and Achieving the 20 Aichi Targets calls “Rio+20” meeting to look at the global insti- the scientific community. for their urgent integration at nation- tutional order that underpins sustainable Indeed, this Convention, also known al and local levels through the revision development, and to look at the founda- as the Convention for Life on Earth, has of National Biodiversity Strategies and tions of the Green Economy. Biodiversity come a long way since its inception in Action Plans. Thanks to the leadership of represents the natural capital upon which 1992. It has come from being an idea with Japan, the Secretariat in 2011organized, the green economy is built. The Convention, the promise of protecting biodiversity and through the Japan Biodiversity Fund, 12 as one of the legacies of the 1992 Earth contributing to sustainable development, regional and sub-regional workshops and Summit, is one of the institutional responses to a well-developed legal instrument, with assisted 175 Parties to translate the Aichi 2 Satoyama 4 Targets into national biodiversity frame- diversity of life on this planet and recognise and need to be successfully implemented works. The challenge facing the biodiversity the intimate relationship between human by all Parties and their partners as soon as family is to ensure the successful imple- communities and the ecosystems in which possible, and no later than 2020. mentation at national and local levels of they live and thrive. It is one of our tools As world leaders gather in Rio de Janeiro the new generation of National Strategies in the struggle against the impacts of cli- to re-design a new road map to achieving and Action Plans. mate change. It is a unique agreed bio- sustainable development, I call upon all Indeed, the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity diversity