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Appendix 1. Clarifying the 2010 Target: focal areas, goals and targets under the CBD
| Focal Area: Protect the components of biodiversity |
| Goal 1: | Promote the conservation of the biological diversity of ecosystems, habitats and biomes. |
| | At least 10% of each of the world's ecological regions effectively conserved. |
| | Areas of particular importance to biodiversity protected. |
| Goal 2: | Promote the conservation of species diversity. |
| | Restore, maintain, or reduce the decline of populations of species of selected taxonomic groups. |
| | Status of threatened species improved. |
| Goal 3: | Promote the conservation of genetic diversity. |
| | Genetic diversity of crops, livestock, and of harvested species of trees, fish and wildlife and other
valuable species conserved, and associated indigenous and local knowledge maintained. |
|
| Focal Area: Promote sustainable use |
| Goal 4: | Promote sustainable use and consumption. |
| | Biodiversity-based products derived from sources that are sustainably managed, and production
areas managed consistent with the conservation of biodiversity. |
| | Unsustainable consumption, of biological resources, or that impacts upon biodiversity, reduced. |
| | No species of wild flora or fauna endangered by international trade. |
|
| Focal Area: Address threats to biodiversity |
| Goal 5: | Pressures from habitat loss, land use change and degradation, and unsustainable water use, reduced. |
| | Rate of loss and degradation of natural habitats decreased. |
| Goal 6: | Control threats from invasive alien species. |
| | Pathways for major potential alien invasive species controlled. |
| | Management plans in place for major alien species that threaten ecosystems, habitats or species. |
| Goal 7: | Address challenges to biodiversity from climate change, and pollution. |
| | Maintain and enhance resilience of the components of biodiversity to adapt to climate change. |
| | Reduce pollution and its impacts on biodiversity. |
|
| Focal Area: Maintain goods and services from biodiversity to support human well-being |
| Goal 8: | Maintain capacity of ecosystems to deliver goods and services and support livelihoods. |
| | Capacity of ecosystems to deliver goods and services maintained. |
| | Biological resources that support sustainable livelihoods, local food security and health care, especially of poor people maintained. |
|
| Focal Area: Protect traditional knowledge, innovations and practices. |
| Goal 9: | Maintain socio-cultural diversity of indigenous and local communities. |
| | Protect traditional knowledge, innovations and practices. |
| | Protect the rights of indigenous and local communities over their traditional knowledge, in novations and practices, including their rights to benefit sharing. |
|
| Focal Area: Ensure the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the use of genetic resources |
| Goal 10: | Ensure the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the use of genetic resources. |
| | All transfers of genetic resources are in line with the Convention on Biological Diversity, the
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and other applica
ble agreements. |
| | Benefits arising from the commercial and other utilisation of genetic resources shared with
the countries providing such resources. |
|
| Focal Area: Ensure provision of adequate resources |
| Goal 11: | Parties have improved financial, human, scientific, technical and technological capacity to implement the Convention. |
| | New and additional financial resources are transferred to developing country Parties, to allow
for the effective implementation of their commitments under the Convention, in accordance
with Article 20. |
| | Technology is transferred to developing country Parties, to allow for the effective implementation of their commitments under the Convention, in accordance with its Article 20, paragraph 4. |
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