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SUMMARY:Financial costs of “saving” globally threatened species and sa
 feguarding important sites for biodiversity: Are current needs being met? 
 - Donal McCarthy (BirdLife International &amp\; RSPB)
DTSTART:20120927T120000Z
DTEND:20120927T130000Z
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CONTACT:Rosamunde Almond
DESCRIPTION:Under the Strategic Plan for the Convention on Biological Dive
 rsity (CBD)\, world governments have committed to halting human-induced ex
 tinctions and safeguarding important sites for biodiversity by 2020. Howev
 er\, inadequate information on the scale of both current (baseline) spendi
 ng on biodiversity conservation and unmet needs is seen as a major impedim
 ent to securing the necessary mobilization of financial resources.\n \nThi
 s project\, led by BirdLife International/RSPB and supported by the Cambri
 dge Conservation Initiative (CCI) Collaborative Fund\, aimed to address th
 is gap by assessing the costs of delivering two key and urgent components 
 of the Strategic Plan. Using data for birds we assessed\, for the first ti
 me\, the costs of preventing extinctions (i.e. improving the conservation 
 status of globally threatened species) and safeguarding (i.e. protecting a
 nd managing) a global network of key sites for biodiversity.\n \nOur resul
 ts should inform upcoming financing negotiations at the CBD COP in Hyderab
 ad\, India\, on the magnitude of the financing needs for implementing the 
 Strategic Plan. Improving the conservation status of globally threatened s
 pecies and protecting important sites for biodiversity is not cheap: a sig
 nificant increase in the level of resources currently dedicated to conserv
 ation is urgently required if we are to meet these targets by 2020. Nevert
 heless\, the total costs are trivial in comparison to expenditure on other
  government “priorities” and compared to the value of global biodivers
 ity in terms of sustaining human wellbeing. \n\nPlease note that no food a
 nd drink can be consumed in this Seminar Hall.
LOCATION:Judge Business School\, Lecture Theatre 3
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