Authors

Takafumi Ohsawa, Ryo Kohsaka

Paper Information

Journal
: Japanese Journal of Ecology
DOI
: https://doi.org/10.18960/seitai.74.1_71

Authors

Makihiko Ikegami, Maya Sumi, Takahide A Ishida, Hiroya Yamano, Ryo Kohsaka, Fumiko Ishihama, Satoshi Kameyama, Dai Koide, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Motoshi Tomita, Taku Kadoya

Paper Information

Journal
: Japanese Journal of Ecology
DOI
: https://doi.org/10.18960/seitai.74.1_85

Four papers, two of them co-authored by Professor Ryo Kohsaka, explaining the background and details of the Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), a new global target to be adopted at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) in December 2022, have been published in a special section of the Japanese Journal of Ecology.

The framework includes specific numerical targets for ecosystem conservation and sustainable resource use, such as the "30 by 30" target to effectively conserve at least 30% of the world's land and oceans as healthy ecosystems by 2030. In this special section, designed to help more people understand the contents of the Framework, we have invited Professor Ryo Kohsaka (Department of Forest Science) and other experts from CBD COP15, the pre-sessional meetings of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technical Advice to the Convention on Biological Diversity (SBSTTA), the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework (OEWG), and the Ad hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG).

   In the “Discussion of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” (Ohsawa and Kohsaka), as a general background of this special section, the authors compare the KMGBF with its predecessors, the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets (ABTs), using the specific/measurable/ambitious/realistic/time-bound (SMART) perspective, which has attracted attention in recent years with regard to international goal-setting. Through this comparison, the characteristics of the KMGBF are clarified, and the history and relationship between the KMGBF and the discussions on resource mobilization and benefit-sharing from the use of genetic information are visualized. It then discusses future challenges and prospects in implementing the KMGBF from an environmental and socio-economic perspective.

  Other papers provide commentary and prospects based on field experience and knowledge. It is hoped that this special section will help to broaden understanding of the framework in Japan and stimulate discussion on specific conservation activities.

This study was conducted as part of the scientific research and development program for KAKENHI (Balancing Tourism and Conservation in Era of Climate Change and Shrinkage: Land Use Maps as a Boundary Object JP22H03852, JP21K18456 [Rep: Ryo Kohsaka]) and JST/RISTEX scientific and technology innovation policy “Development and practice of consensus formation method for promotion of policy compatible with agriculture and forestry production and environmental conservation” (https://www.jst.go.jp/ristex/stipolicy/project/project40.html) (Rep: Ryo Kohsaka).