A presentation by Aleksandar Rankovic at the side-event of the twenty-second meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice organised by IDDRI and PBL (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) .
This side-event addresses the possible contribution on non-state actors to the objectives of the CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) . It starts from the suggestion that much more is happening by Non-state actors and International Collaborative Initiatives for biodiversity, then currently recognised in the CBD. The bottom-up turn in global climate governance (Paris Agreements) and SDGs towards a pledge-based system provide an important source of inspiration for this idea, but this requires further examination taking into account the specificities of the biodiversity domain.
During the side event results of new research in the role of non-state actors beyond direct biodiversity conservation will be presented. It provides insight in the level of mainstreaming in transnational and international collaborative initiatives and the different governance functions non-state actors are currently fulfilling for biodiversity in domains of agriculture, forestry, energy and climate. It also gives some first indication how issues of Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) are being dealt with, as this will be an important towards positive biodiversity impacts on the ground. Some lessons from the SDGs and climate regime will be presented.
The panel discussion of practioners will address the implications of a non-state approach to biodiversity, discuss the question how parties under the CBD can make better use of the untapped potential of non-state action and explore practical implications to be taken into account in the post-2020 Biodiversity Framework.
