Journal
ONE EARTH
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 75-87Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.12.011
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Funding
- Pew Marine Fellowship
- Leventis Foundation
- Wildlife Conservation Society
- Synchronicity Earth
- UK Research and Innovation's Global Challenges Research Fund (UKRI GCRF) through the Development Corridors Partnership project [ES/P011500/1]
- UKRI GCRF through the Trade, Development, and the Environment Hub project [ES/S008160/1]
- NERC's EnvEast Doctoral Training Partnership [NE/L002582/1]
- Balfour Beatty
- Australian Research Council Future Fellowship [FT14001516]
- Australian National Environmental Science Program through the Threatened Species Recovery Hub
- Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom [NZCR-2015-174]
- University of Oxford [NZCR-2015-174]
- ESRC [ES/S008160/1, ES/P011500/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The upcoming CBD meeting and adoption of the new Global Biodiversity Framework present an opportunity to transform humanity's relationship with nature, requiring a bold vision and mainstreaming biodiversity conservation in society. The Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy framework supports actions to conserve and restore nature, enabling evaluation of their effectiveness across sectors and scales.
The upcoming Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting, and adoption of the new Global Biodiversity Framework, represent an opportunity to transform humanity's relationship with nature. Restoring nature while meeting human needs requires a bold vision, including mainstreaming biodiversity conservation in society. We present a framework that could support this: the Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy. This places the Mitigation Hierarchy for mitigating and compensating the biodiversity impacts of developments (1, avoid; 2, minimize; 3, restore; and 4, offset, toward a target such as no net loss of biodiversity) within a broader framing encompassing all conservation actions. We illustrate its application by national governments, sub-national levels (specifically the city of London, a fishery, and Indigenous groups), companies, and individuals. The Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy supports the choice of actions to conserve and restore nature, and evaluation of the effectiveness of those actions, across sectors and scales. It can guide actions toward a sustainable future for people and nature, supporting the CBD's vision.Y
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