Further economic growth can facilitate sustainable development only if it is decoupled from the degradation of biodiversity and nature’s capacity to contribute to people.
The second meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 2) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)heldin Montreal July, 9- 13. This year the SBI2 reviewedthe progress in the implementation of the CBD, the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020towards the achievement of the Aichi targets; assessed and reviewedthe effectiveness of the Nagoya Protocol; examined …