Law in Action: Achieving Global Peace with Nature

ClientEarth advocates for a shift from siloed environmental policies to comprehensive, legally binding frameworks that integrate biodiversity into all sectors of governance. The briefing emphasizes the need for human rights-based approaches, particularly for Indigenous Peoples, and highlights the importance of accountability mechanisms and the role of strategic litigation and regulation, such as the EU's Nature Restoration Law and Deforestation-free Products Regulation, in achieving global biodiversity targets.

• Current national biodiversity strategies, specifically National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), are often ineffective because they remain siloed within environmental ministries and are rarely enshrined in national legislation or cross-governmental policy instruments.
• To effectively implement the KMGBF, biodiversity must be mainstreamed across all sectors of governance, requiring a comprehensive assessment of national legal systems to ensure conservation is integrated into sectors such as agriculture, energy production, finance, infrastructure, and health.
• Biodiversity governance must adopt a human rights-based approach that guarantees the substantive participation of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, women, and marginalized groups in decision-making and protects their legal rights to land and resources.
• The EU Deforestation-free Products Regulation (EUDR) supports KMGBF Targets 1, 3, and 10 by requiring that commodities like palm oil, soy, beef, cocoa, coffee, rubber, and timber entering the EU market do not contribute to deforestation or forest degradation.
• The EU Nature Restoration Law, adopted in June 2024, sets legally binding targets to restore at least 20% of the EU's land and marine areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.
• China has utilized Ecological Conservation Redlines (ECRL) as a primary tool to achieve the 30x30 goal, with over 319 million hectares delineated, exceeding 30% of China's land territorial area.
• Success at COP16 depends on finalizing the Monitoring Framework, establishing a global biodiversity stocktake for collective progress, and closing the annual biodiversity finance gap of USD 700 billion.

APA

ClientEarth (2024). Law in Action: Achieving Global Peace with Nature. https://www.clientearth.org/media/ca1frwth/law-in-action-clientearth-briefing-for-cop16-cbd-online.pdf

Chicago

ClientEarth. Law in Action: Achieving Global Peace with Nature. 2024. https://www.clientearth.org/media/ca1frwth/law-in-action-clientearth-briefing-for-cop16-cbd-online.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{clientearth2024law, author = {{ClientEarth}}, title = {{Law in Action: Achieving Global Peace with Nature}}, institution = {ClientEarth}, year = {2024}, month = oct, url = {https://www.clientearth.org/media/ca1frwth/law-in-action-clientearth-briefing-for-cop16-cbd-online.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }