Enhancing synergies between action on ocean acidification and the post‐2020 global biodiversity framework
Abstract Ocean acidification is a substantial emergent threat to marine biodiversity and the goods and services it provides. Although efforts to address ocean acidification have been taken under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a far greater potential to do so exists by finding synergie...
| Published in: | Conservation Biology |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2020
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13598 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fcobi.13598 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cobi.13598 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/cobi.13598 |
| Summary: | Abstract Ocean acidification is a substantial emergent threat to marine biodiversity and the goods and services it provides. Although efforts to address ocean acidification have been taken under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a far greater potential to do so exists by finding synergies between biodiversity conservation efforts and ocean acidification action. The ongoing process to develop a post‐2020 global biodiversity framework offers an opportunity to ensure that opportunities for addressing ocean acidification are capitalized on and not overlooked. I argue that to achieve this, the following are needed: a technical integration of ocean acidification across the targets to be included in the post‐2020 framework and a reframing of the issue as a biodiversity problem so as to highlight the synergies between existing biodiversity work and action needed to address ocean acidification. Given that the post‐2020 framework is intended to establish the global biodiversity agenda for the coming decades, integration of ocean acidification will set a precedent for the other biodiversity‐related conventions and encourage greater uptake of the issue across the wider international community. My approach is of direct relevance to those participating in the negotiations, both from a CBD Party perspective and the perspective of those advocating for a strong outcome to protect marine biodiversity and marine socioecological systems. My discussion of framing is relevant to those working beyond the CBD within other biodiversity‐related conventions in which goals to address ocean acidification are sorely lacking. |
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