{"id":108631,"date":"2021-05-25T17:37:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T12:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=108631"},"modified":"2021-05-28T18:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T13:17:22","slug":"protected-planet-report-2020-released-by-unep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/protected-planet-report-2020-released-by-unep\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Protected Planet Report&#8221; 2020 Released by UNEP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What is the News?\u00a0<\/strong>UNEP released the Protected Planet Report\u00a02020.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Protected Planet Report 2020:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Released by: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/united-nations-organisations-in-news-prelims-capsules-2021\/\">United Nations Environment Programme<\/a> (UNEP) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>The report takes stock of measures taken to fulfill the aims of Aichi Target 11. Aichi Target 11 called for protecting 17% of Earth\u2019s land and 10% of its marine environments by 2020.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Further, the report also<\/strong> lays the groundwork for a new framework aimed at protecting nature. It will be decided upon at the UN Biodiversity Conference, scheduled for October 2021 in Kunming, China.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moreover, the report<\/strong> is the first to include data on <strong>other effective area-based conservation measures(OECM)<\/strong> taken outside protected areas. OECM conservation designation is given to the areas for achieving effective in-situ biodiversity conservation outside protected areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Key Findings:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Increase in Protected Areas and OECM: <\/strong>As many as 82% of countries and territories register an increase in the share of protected areas and OECM since 2010.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Protected Areas<\/strong> are clearly defined geographical space. These are recognised, dedicated, and managed through legal or other effective means to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Since 2010, protected areas<\/strong> covering almost a million square kilometers have been added to the global network. This area is greater than the land area of the Russian Federation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Over the 10-year period, the greatest growth<\/strong> in protected areas and OECMs has been in marine and coastal areas. Around 68% of the current network&#8217;s area is less than 10 years old.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Around 62.6% <\/strong>of key biodiversity areas (KBA) either fully or partially overlap with protected areas and OECMs.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Key Biodiversity Areas(KBAs) <\/strong>are sites that contribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>What are <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/coming-up-new-set-of-targets-to-protect-the-natural-world\/\">Aichi Biodiversity Targets<\/a>?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aichi Biodiversity Targets <\/strong>are a set of 20 targets classified under 5 Strategic Goals. They were included in the Strategic Plan for <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/biodiversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biodiversity<\/a> for the 2011-2020 period.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adoption of the targets happened <\/strong>at the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity(CBD).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose<\/strong>: The development of targets happened to prevent the loss of biological diversity in each participating country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/more-protected-82-countries-raised-cover-for-vulnerable-areas-in-a-decade-77025\"><strong>Down To Earth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News?\u00a0UNEP released the Protected Planet Report\u00a02020. About Protected Planet Report 2020: Released by: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Purpose: The report takes stock of measures taken to fulfill the aims of Aichi Target 11. Aichi Target 11 called for protecting 17% of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/protected-planet-report-2020-released-by-unep\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Protected Planet Report&#8221; 2020 Released by UNEP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,4182,1305,9],"tags":[1448],"class_list":["post-108631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-environment","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-env_5","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700202632},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}