EVENTS
Consultation Meeting on Landscape Approaches
2020.02.23
An “Informal meeting on landscape and seascape approaches and their relevance to the post-2020 global biodiversity framework” was held in the margins of the Second meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework on 23 February 2020 at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy. Around 35 participants—mostly delegates from national government parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)—attended for a lively discussion of what a landscape approach can contribute to making biodiversity policy more effective, and to share experiences and perspectives from countries around the world.
Participants at the meeting identified a number of benefits of landscape approaches, particularly that they can improve inclusivity by bringing together all interests and stakeholders in a landscape, enhance management of protected areas and spatial planning through greater connectivity across the landscape, and help to align policy at multiple levels. The meeting was co-organized with the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands, and the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.
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The briefing report of this meeting is available here.