Target 14

Integrate Biodiversity in Decision-Making at Every Level

Ensure the full integration of biodiversity and its multiple values into policies, regulations, planning and development processes, poverty eradication strategies, strategic environmental assessments, environmental impact assessments and, as appropriate, national accounting, within and across all levels of government and across all sectors, in particular those with significant impacts on biodiversity,progressively aligning all relevant public and private activities, fiscal and financial flows with the goals and targets of this framework.

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Ensure the full integration of biodiversity and its multiple values into policies, regulations, planning and development processes, poverty eradication strategies, strategic environmental assessments, environmental impact assessments and, as appropriate, national accounting, within and across all levels of government and across all sectors, in particular those with significant impacts on biodiversity,progressively aligning all relevant public and private activities, fiscal and financial flows with the goals and targets of this framework.

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Rationale

GSAP

International and national policies generally prioritize economic growth over species, including subsidies and incentives associated with environmentally harmful practices in fisheries, aquaculture, agriculture, livestock rearing, forestry, mining, and energy, and pollution. Integrating species conservation needs into policies and regulatory frameworks across all sectors contributes directly to many targets and positive species outcomes.

Actions

Primary tools and resources

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Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Sustainable Development

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) produced  Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Sustainable Development for biodiversity policymakers and practitioners in developed and developing countries, as well as development co-operation agencies and other national ministries. The report highlights examples of good practice and remaining challenges in four key areas: mainstreaming biodiversity at national level; mainstreaming biodiversity in the agriculture, forestry, and fisheries sectors; development co-operation and biodiversity mainstreaming; and monitoring and evaluating biodiversity mainstreaming. Examples and insights are included from 16 predominantly megadiverse countries which span the full range from high-income to lower-income economies. The national level entry point for biodiversity mainstreaming is important and elements to encourage mainstreaming and its implementation in practice across relevant national plans and strategies.

How to use

The policy highlights report can be downloaded at: https://www.oecd.org/environment/resources/Policy-Highlights-Mainstreaming-Biodiversity-for-Sustainable-Development.pdf

Further information on the OECD is available at: https://www.oecd.org/

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Other tools and resources

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Reproductive choice in national biodiversity policy: Guidance on how to ensure PHE and removing barriers to rights-based and voluntary family planning are included in NBSAPs

The tool introduces the background to NBSAPs, highlights how to engage in national revision processes and suggests entry points to promote the importance of removing barriers to voluntary and rights-based family planning and the development of new Population, Health and Environment (PHE) programmes within the NBSAPs. The tool can be used by anyone engaged in an NBSAP revision process, and is owned by the IUCN Biodiversity & Family Planning Task Force.

How to use it
Specifically, the GSAP states one key and strategic action is, “14.5 Ensure removal of barriers to rights-based voluntary family planning”. The GSAP also suggests tools and resources including resources from USAID and Population Reference Bureau relevant. The references to PHE and barriers to family planning in the GSAP is one of ten arguments which advocates can use to influence NBSAPs stated in the tool. The tool is an output of the IUCN Biodiversity & Family Planning Task Force and the creation of the Task Force was itself an output of the resolution passed at IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseilles “Importance for the conservation of nature of removing barriers to rights- based voluntary family planning”.

Targeting Natural Resource Corruption Knowledge Hub

Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) is a USAID-funded project to improve biodiversity outcomes by equipping practitioners to address the threats posed by corruption to wildlife, fisheries, and forests. It does this through three Strategic Approaches

USAID’s Knowledge Success “20 Essential Resources: Population, Health & Environment” and Population Health & Environment Toolkits

Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) is an integrated communitybased approach that recognizes the relationships between people’s health an d the environment. This multisectoral approach strives to improve voluntary family planning and reproduct ive health care and conservation and natural resource management within th e communities living in ecologically rich areas of our globe.

Access to voluntary family planning enables couples to decide whether, when , and how many children to have, resulting in healthier women, children, and communities. Along with increased access to education, family planning can also contribute to slowing population growth and therefore may lessen press ure on natural resources. The PHE approach also encourages communities to engage in sustainable practices to preserve their ecosystems.

Population Reference Bureau’s resources and training

PRB applies our data, research, analysis, and communications expertise to a variety of policy-relevant areas of focus. Our mission is to improve the well-being of current and future generations worldwide by supporting evidence-based approaches to social policies and programs.

IUCN SSC & CEESP Biodiversity & Family Planning Task Force

The International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, is the only global membership union composed of both government and civil society organisations. The Biodiversity & Family Planning Task Force is the first and only IUCN entity focussed exclusively on the connections between reproductive and environmental health. We are the IUCN Task Force with the greatest emphasis on human health. Our work is critically important because environmental and human health are inextricably linked.

WCC 2020 Res 072 “Importance for the conservation of nature of removing barriers to rights-based voluntary family planning”

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