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Title
Regional scalable priorities for national biodiversity and carbon conservation planning in Asia
Author(s)
Zhu, Li; Hughes, Alice C.; Zhao, Xiao-Qian; Zhou, Li-Jing; Ma, Ke-Ping; Shen, Xiao-Li; Li, Sheng; Liu, Ming-Zhang; Xu, Wu-Bing; Watson, James E. M.
Published
2021
Publisher
Science Advances
Published Version DOI
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe4261
Abstract
To achieve the goals of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, we must identify representative targets that effectively protect biodiversity and can be implemented at a national level. We developed a framework to identify synergies between biodiversity and carbon across the Asian region and proposed a stepwise approach based on scalable priorities at regional, biome, and national levels that can complement potential Convention on Biological Diversity targets of protecting 30% land in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Our targets show that 30% of Asian land could effectively protect over 70% of all assessed species relative to only 11% now (based on analysis of 8932 terrestrial vertebrates), in addition to 2.3 to 3.6 hundred billion metric tons of carbon. Funding mechanisms are needed to ensure such targets to support biodiversity-carbon mutually beneficial solutions at the national level while reflecting broader priorities, especially in hyperdiverse countries where priorities exceed 30% of land.
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