SUB-REGIONAL WORKSHOPS FOR THE ELABORATION OF THE POST 2020 SAPBIO
UNEP/MAP-SPA/RAC is organizing 4 workshops to be held from 26 February to 07 April 2021, to identify the priorities for marine and coastal biodiversity conservation in each Mediterranean subregion. The post-2020 SAPBIO process has so far mobilized more than 320 national experts and partners in its national consultation phase.
In 2003, the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention adopted during the COP13 the “Strategic Action Programme for the Conservation of Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean Region” (SAPBIO). For more than 15 years, the SAPBIO served as a strategic framework for implementation of the SPA/BD Protocol. A new strategy “Post-2020 Strategic Action Programme for the Conservation of Biodiversity and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in the Mediterranean Region” is now being prepared by UNEP/MAP-SPA/RAC, as requested by the Barcelona Convention COP21, to replace the previous one. This strategy will be aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and harmonised with the CBD Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.