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A turning point in global biodiversity governance?

Rabitz, Florian; Beaudoin, Simon; Jedd, Theresa et al.

2025 • In Environmental Politics, p. 1-10

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Biological diversity; digital sequence information; global governance; protected areas; transformation; Environmental Science (miscellaneous); Sociology and Political Science

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[en] In the context of an intensifying global biodiversity crisis, we provide a critical assessment of political and institutional developments in global biodiversity governance between 2022 and 2025. We note that in this period, global biodiversity governance is generating sustained political momentum and institutional innovation consistent with transformative types of change that are needed to mitigate biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. We conclude that recent developments in global biodiversity governance contrast markedly with developments in other areas of global environmental governance, and that the adoption of the 2022 Global Biodiversity Framework has likely acted as a catalyst for increased ambition and institutional innovation.

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European & international law

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Rabitz, Florian ; Research Group Civil Society and Sustainability, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania

Beaudoin, Simon ; Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Jedd, Theresa ; Technical University of Munich, Germany

Lehmann, Ina ; Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Prip, Christian ; Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, Norway

de Queiroz-Stein, Guilherme ; Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

Tsioumani, Elsa ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Cité

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English

Title :

A turning point in global biodiversity governance?

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2025

Journal title :

Environmental Politics

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0964-4016

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Routledge

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1-10

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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