Centre for Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, The Lodge, Potton Road, Sandy, SG19 2DL, U.K.
UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DL, U.K.
Conserv Biol. 2019 Dec;33(6):1360-1369. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13322. Epub 2019 Jun 5.
To inform governmental discussions on the nature of a revised Strategic Plan for Biodiversity of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), we reviewed the relevant literature and assessed the framing of the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets in the current strategic plan. We asked international experts from nongovernmental organizations, academia, government agencies, international organizations, research institutes, and the CBD to score the Aichi Targets and their constituent elements against a set of specific, measurable, ambitious, realistic, unambiguous, scalable, and comprehensive criteria (SMART based, excluding time bound because all targets are bound to 2015 or 2020). We then investigated the relationship between these expert scores and reported progress toward the target elements by using the findings from 2 global progress assessments (Global Biodiversity Outlook and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services). We analyzed the data with ordinal logistic regressions. We found significant positive relationships (p < 0.05) between progress and the extent to which the target elements were perceived to be measurable, realistic, unambiguous, and scalable. There was some evidence of a relationship between progress and specificity of the target elements, but no relationship between progress and ambition. We are the first to show associations between progress and the extent to which the Aichi Targets meet certain SMART criteria. As negotiations around the post-2020 biodiversity framework proceed, decision makers should strive to ensure that new or revised targets are effectively structured and clearly worded to allow the translation of targets into actionable policies that can be successfully implemented nationally, regionally, and globally.
为了为《生物多样性公约》（CBD）修订战略计划的性质提供政府讨论信息，我们回顾了相关文献，并评估了当前战略计划中 20 个爱知生物多样性目标的框架。我们邀请了来自非政府组织、学术界、政府机构、国际组织、研究机构和 CBD 的国际专家，根据一套具体、可衡量、有野心、现实、明确、可扩展和全面的标准（基于 SMART，不包括时间限制，因为所有目标都与 2015 年或 2020 年挂钩）对爱知目标及其组成部分进行评分。然后，我们使用全球两项进展评估（全球生物多样性展望和生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台）的结果来研究这些专家评分与目标组成部分报告进展之间的关系。我们使用有序逻辑回归分析了数据。我们发现，目标组成部分的可衡量性、现实性、明确性和可扩展性与进展之间存在显著的正相关关系（p<0.05）。目标组成部分的特异性与进展之间存在一定的关系，但目标组成部分的野心与进展之间没有关系。我们是第一个表明爱知目标的进展与符合某些 SMART 标准的程度之间存在关联的人。随着 2020 年后生物多样性框架谈判的进行，决策者应努力确保新的或修订的目标得到有效构建，并措辞清晰，以便将目标转化为可在国家、地区和全球范围内成功实施的可操作政策。
