Science-based Targets for Biodiversity:Species

Newcastle University, 11-13 February 2019Thomas Brooks (Chief Scientist, IUCN) @IUCNscienceJuha Siikamaki (Chief Economist, IUCN) @JSiikamakiNeil Burgess (Chief Scientist, UN Environment – World Conservation Monitoring Centre) @NeilBurgess081Stuart Butchart (Chief Scientist, BirdLife International)

@stubutchartJon Hutton (Executive Director, Luc Hoffmann Institute, WWF

International; & Chair, SSC Red List Committee) @JonathanHutton2

Phil McGowan (Newcastle University; & Chair, SSC Post-2020 Taskforce) @philipjkmcgowan

Mission for the post-2020 framework

https://www.cbd.int/post2020/; Mace et al. (2018) Nature Sust; Arlidge et al. (2018) BioScience; Maron et al. (2018) Nature Evol Ecol

Analogy to the Paris Agreement

https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/english_paris_agreement.pdf; https://sciencebasedtargets.org/

Specific science-based targets for biodiversity

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Objective 1: measuring science-based targets for species

http://cpicfinance.com/; Joppa et al. (2016) Science

Objective 2: assessing telecoupledimpacts

Lenzen et al. (2012) Nature; Marques et al. (2017) COSUST

Delimiting the meeting

https://www.cbd.int/post2020/; https://www.cbd.int/convention/text/; https://www.weforum.org/

Acknowledgements

https://research.ncl.ac.uk/biodiversitypost2020/; https://luchoffmanninstitute.org/