Anne Teller Biodiversity Unit DG Environment

European Commission

EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy: status & implementation

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EU leaders commitment: A long term (2050) vision

A headline target to 2020

By 2050, European Union biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides – its natural capital – are protected, valued and appropriately restored for biodiversity’s intrinsic value and for their essential contribution to human well-being and economic prosperity, and so that catastrophic changes caused by the loss of biodiversity are avoided.

Halting the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystem services in the EU by 2020, and restoring them in so far as feasible, while stepping up the EU contribution to averting global biodiversity loss

2050 Vision

Full implementat

Nature legislation

Maintain and restore

ecosystems

Sustanaible agriculture

and forestry

Sustainable Fisheries &

GES

Combat Invasive

Alien Species

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Help avert global

biodiversity loss

2020 Headline target

EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020

Target 1 Target 3 Target 4 Target 5 Target 6

20 Actions / Monitoring (indicators)

Target 2

Common Implementation Framework

BISE http://biodiversity.europa.eu/

Target 1 – Nature conservation

To improve significantly the status of all species and habitats covered by EU nature legislation by 2020

Tools: - MS Reporting under Art. 17 of HD by June 2013 - MS Reporting under and Art. 12 BD by end 2013; - EU assessment due by end 2014-beginning 2015

Knowledge/research Issues: - Lack of data - Different interpretations of definitions - Different monitoring, assessment, reporting approaches - Link with ecosystem & genetic health

Governance: Reporting Expert Group under Nature Directives

Tools: - Mapping & Assessment of Ecosystems and Services (2014) - Restoration Prioritisation Framework (2014) - Green Infrastructure Communication (2013) - Biodiversity proofing of EU budget - No Net Loss of biodiversity & ecosystem services by 2015

Knowledge/research Issues: - Lack of (access to) data, - Different monitoring, assessment, reporting approaches - Knowledge gaps (ecosystem condition/services, interactions nature & social-ecological systems, valuation)

Governance: MAES WG, GI/RPF WG, NNL WG

Target 2 - Ecosystem maintenance and restoration By 2020, ecosystems and their services are maintained and enhanced by establishing green infrastructure and restoring at least 15 % of degraded ecosystems.

4-step approach

Action 5 MAES

‘Report once use many ’

Target 2 – Action 5

One of the keystones of the strategy providing the knowledge base and reference against which future changes will be measured

MAES as overarching “roof” assessment,

•  linked to global initiatives to protect biodiversity.

•  IPBES: the international platform of biodiversity and ecosystem services is expected to deliver by 2018 a global assessment based on regional assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

•  Natural Capital Accounting: the UN statistics division is developing environmental economic accounts (SEEA), which will complement national economic accounts.

MAES analytical framework

• First output of the MAES working group.

• Sets a conceptual framework for mapping and assessment linking human well-being to biodiversity

• Makes proposals for a typology of ecosystems and ecosystem services linked to accounting systems

Knowledge/research issues •  Development of systematic, long-term strategy for generation and

assessment of data concerning ecosystem condition •  Methodologies for assessment of ecosystem condition •  Relation between species & habitat status (Art. 17) and

ecosystem condition •  Measurement of ecosystem services – physical metrics •  Valuation of ecosystem services – opportunities and constraints of

monetary valuation •  Better knowledge about ecosystem services and social benefits for

human health, identity, feeling of place, social exclusion •  development of technologies, information systems and processes

for green infrastructure (green roofs, walls, management systems for buildings, etc.)

•  Metrics for assessment of equivalence in terms of ecosystem descriptors, ecosystem condition, ecosystem services

Tools: - Reporting under Art. 17 of HD and Art. 12 BD; - Agri databases (IACS, FSS) - MAES - RDP

Knowledge/research Issues: - Access to agricultural data, lack of data on genetics - Agricultural measures & biodiversity conservation - Managed ecosystems, social benefits - Innovative & diversified solutions

Governance: Agriculture & Biodiversity WG

Target 3a – Sustainable Agriculture By 2020, significant improvement in the conservation status of species and habitats affected by agriculture (cf. Target 1) and in the provision of ecosystem services through biodiversity-related measures under the CAP.

Tools: - Reporting under Art. 17 of HD and Art. 12 BD; - MAES - EU Forest Strategy (2013) - SFM negotiation

Knowledge/research Issues: - Access to forest inventory data - Link between forestry measures & biodiversity - Managed ecosystems, social benefits - Impact assessment (energy, industry, biomass)

Governance: Standing Forestry Committee

Target 3b – Sustainable Forestry By 2020, Forest Management Plans in line with Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) are in place for all forests and conservation status of forest species and habitats has improved significantly (cf. Target 1)

Tools: - Reform of CFP - Natura 000 marine sites designation - Reporting under MSFD, WFD & Nature Directives; - MAES

Knowledge/research Issues: - Access to fisheries data - Fish stock management measures & biodiversity (MSY) - Sustainable ecosytem-based fisheries, management tools - Spatial planning, social benefits - Quality descriptors (GES)

Governance: MSFD Coordination Group

Target 4 – Sustainable Fisheries & GES Achieve Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) by 2015/2020 and Good Environmental Status by 2020, as required under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.

Tools: - Reporting under EU Plant & Animal Health Regimes - Reporting under Nature Directives / EU Red Lists - EASIN by JRC - New legislative instrument to fill gaps

Knowledge/research Issues: - Lack of data, long-term monitoring - Broad impact of IAS and interaction with biodiversity - Economic instruments

Governance: To be established, inc. Scientific Review Group

Target 5 – Invasive Alien Species By 2020, Invasive Alien Species (IAS) and their pathways are identified and prioritised, priority species are controlled or eradicated, and pathways are managed to prevent the introduction and establishment of new IAS

Tools: - Footprint indicator, OECD markers; - ABS Protocol (by 2015) - BEST in overseas territories

Knowledge/research Issues: - Indirect drivers of biodiversity loss (consumption, resource efficiency, trade-related impacts genetics - Lack of data on resource mobilisation for global biodiversity (CBD COP-10 follow up) - Biodiversity proof’ EU development cooperation - Access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their use

Governance: Biodiversity & Development Cooperation WG

Target 6 – Global Biodiversity By 2020, the EU has stepped up its contribution to averting global biodiversity loss

MARCH 2014 5NR TO CBD

GBO4 OCT. 2014 COP12

Mid-Term Review Strategic Plan

GBO4

MAY 2015

MDG

Global

EU

2nd EU Art.17 Report

2020 2018 2016 2015 2013 2014

22 MAY

MAES Event

OCTOBER 2013 CBD SBSTTA17

IPBES Assessment

BDS Mid-Term Review

BDS MAES 2015

COP13

MAES 2020 3rd EU Art.17 Report

COP14 COP15 COP14

BDS Final

Report EEA SOER

WFD REPORT

MSFD

REPORT

Final Report Strategic

Plan

Policy reporting timeline

Conclusions

•  Need for involving scientific community in close collaboration with DG Research & Innovation (governance)

•  Need to closely align research's work programme with (biodiversity) policy agenda Need to find ways to fund monitoring and assessment

•  Need to think creatively how best to make use of different funding instruments under H2020 and beyond, including financial instruments

•  Need to work on how to better reap the outcomes of EU funded research and feed into policy process and vice versa (science-policy interface)

Towards more evidence-based policy

1.  Inclusive process to assess interactions between people and environment and enhance mutual benefits (social justice)

2.   Transparent and independent (peer-review) process to support decision-making (and avoid conflict of interest)

3.   Dynamic interaction between ‘science’ and policy on emerging (or re-emerging) policy issues

4.   Operational policy & management options and scenarios (policy tools)

5.   Innovative funding / calls (ERA Net of policy makers, crowd-funded research projects)

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