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Enabling transformative economic change in the post‐2020 biodiversity agenda

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  • Esther Turnhout

    (WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen])

  • Pamela Mcelwee

    (Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University)

  • Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline

    (PJSE - Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

  • Jennifer Clapp

    (University of Waterloo [Waterloo])

  • Cindy Isenhour

    (Department of Anthropology & Climate Change Institute, University of Maine)

  • Eszter Kelemen

    (ESSRG ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH GROUP HUN - Partenaires IRSTEA - IRSTEA - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Sociology, Budapest)

  • Tim Jackson

    (UNIS - University of Surrey)

  • Daniel C Miller

    (UIUC - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Urbana] - University of Illinois System)

  • Graciela M Rusch

    (NINA - Norwegian Institute for Nature Research)

  • Joachim H Spangenberg

    (Sustainable Europe Research Institute SERI Germany, Cologne)

  • Anthony Waldron

    (Cambridge Conservation Initiative, Cambridge University, The Working Ant, Cambridge)

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic, its impact on the global economy, and current delays in the negotiation of the post-2020 global biodiversity agenda of the Convention on Biological Diversity heighten the urgency to build back better for biodiversity, sustainability, and well-being. In 2019 the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) concluded that addressing biodiversity loss requires a transformative change of the global economic system. Drawing on the IPBES findings, this policy perspective discusses actions in four priority areas to inform the post-2020 agenda: (1) Increasing funding for conservation; (2) redirecting incentives for sustainability; (3) creating an enabling regulatory environment; and (4) reforming metrics to assess biodiversity impacts and progress toward sustainable and just goals. As the COVID-19 pandemic has made clear, and the negotiations for the post-2020 agenda have emphasized, governments are indispensable in guiding economic systems and must take an active role in transformations, along with businesses and civil society. These key actors must work together to implement actions that combine short-term impacts with structural change to shift economic systems away from a fixation with growth toward human and ecological well-being. The four priority areas discussed here provide opportunities for the post-2020 agenda to do so.

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  • Esther Turnhout & Pamela Mcelwee & Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline & Jennifer Clapp & Cindy Isenhour & Eszter Kelemen & Tim Jackson & Daniel C Miller & Graciela M Rusch & Joachim H Spangenberg & Anthony W, 2021. "Enabling transformative economic change in the post‐2020 biodiversity agenda," PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) halshs-03216191, HAL.
  • Handle: RePEc:hal:pseptp:halshs-03216191
    DOI: 10.1111/conl.12805
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    1. Batini, Nicoletta & Di Serio, Mario & Fragetta, Matteo & Melina, Giovanni & Waldron, Anthony, 2022. "Building back better: How big are green spending multipliers?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 193(C).
    2. de Castro-Pardo, Mónica & Martín Martín, José María & Azevedo, João C., 2022. "A new composite indicator to assess and monitor performance and drawbacks of the implementation of Aichi Biodiversity Targets," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 201(C).

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    Regulation; Policy; Metrics; Incentives; Green finance; Economic systems; Biodiversity conservation; Subsidies; Trade; Transformative change;
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