Towards the New Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Issue title: Our Earth Matters: Pathways to a Better Common Environmental Future – Part 2

Guest editors: Bharat H. Desai

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Mrema, Elizabeth Maruma^{1; *}

Affiliations: Executive Secretary, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Canada

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: elizabeth.mrema@un.org.

Note: [1] This is the author’s updated keynote speech delivered at the 21st Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Lecture on 27 October 2020 at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law of Pace University, New York, USA.

Abstract: While 2020 –dubbed the “Super Year for Nature –has seen the world battling an unforeseen global pandemic, this article comes back on the Convention of Biological Diversity and its regime, studies the aim of the negotiations of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework and the relevance of this framework for the planet, considering that the protection of biological diversity impacts all aspects of human life, including the full enjoying of human rights and protection against future pandemics.

Keywords: Biodiversity, Aichi Biodiversity Targets, post-2020, environmental law, nature, human rights, right to a healthy environment

DOI: 10.3233/EPL-210005

Journal: Environmental Policy and Law, vol. 51, no. 1-2, pp. 25-33, 2021