1.Welcomes the efforts by the governing bodies of the biodiversity-related conventions to align their own strategies and plans with the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets;
2.Invites the Liaison Group of the biodiversity-related conventions and the Joint Liaison Group of the Rio Conventions to take into due consideration the need to optimize monitoring efforts and improve effectiveness through the use of coherent monitoring frameworks and indicator systems;
3.Concerned about the findings and conclusions of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its
Fifth Assessment Report,
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urges Parties and encourages other Governments, relevant organizations and stakeholders, to take steps to address all biodiversity-related impacts of climate change, strengthen synergies with relevant work under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [and apply advice agreed at the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties, in 2012, on the application of social and environmental safeguards, including biodiversity, to maximize the biodiversity-related benefits of their REDD+ activities;] [and
invites Parties, other Governments, and relevant organizations to continue and strengthen their efforts to promote the contribution of REDD+
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4.Stresses the importance of supporting the objectives of biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements to improve national collaboration, communication and coordination with relevant organizations and processes, and requests the Executive Secretary, in collaboration with relevant organizations and processes, to further facilitate the necessary capacity-building to support the focal points of the biodiversity-related conventions in this regard;
5.Recognizing the need for an all-encompassing effort by all relevant processes to achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets,
reiterates the importance of a United Nations system-wide approach to the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets in the framework of the United Nations Decade for Biodiversity,
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welcomes the report of the Environment Management Group on relevant activities of the Issue Management Group on Biodiversity,
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invites the United Nations and other organizations to continue their efforts in furthering the integration of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets throughout the United Nations system, in particular through the Environment Management Group and other relevant initiatives;
6.Welcomes the outcomes of the first European conference for the implementation of the joint programme between the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Convention on Biological Diversity on the linkages between cultural and biological diversity, including, in particular, the Florence Declaration on the Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity;
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7.Stresses that the involvement of the Convention on Biological Diversity in the Collaborative Partnership on Forests remains important for the effective implementation of the programme of work on forest biodiversity, and requests the Executive Secretary, as a member of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, within available resources, to engage actively in the work of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, including in the ongoing process of review of the International Arrangement on Forests under the United Nations Forum on Forests with a view to addressing biodiversity-related issues adequately;
8.Also requests the Executive Secretary to further study key capacity-building and awareness-raising needs regarding cooperation with other multilateral environmental agreements at the national level.
