In 2010 parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011 – 2020 which comprised an ambitious set of 20 targets for slowing, halting, and reversing biological diversity loss associated with degradation of ecosystems on a global scale.
These targets are known as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. The costs and benefits of achieving these targets is of keen interest to policy makers as they begin the process of implementing programs of work and on-the-ground activities. EPRU Research Fellow Dr Jane Turpie was one of a group of international experts who produced a set of estimates of the cost of achieving these targets, to be presented at the forthcoming conference of the parties in India. The studies were presented and discussed in an open web-cast panel review which was broadcast from Cambridge.