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REFORMING TOWARDS BIODIVERSITY- POST-2020 HARMFUL SUBSIDIES: EXPERTISE - PRACTICAL STEPS TO UNTANGLE

27 May 2021

SUBSIDY AND PERVERSE INCENTIVES CAN conservation and sustainable DEFINITIONS: A WORK UNBALANCE THE PRODUCTION AND use of biodiversity are developed and applied, consistent and in CONSUMPTION OF FOOD, LEADING harmony with the Convention IN PROGRESS? TO AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES and other relevant international obligations, taking into account THAT DEGRADE THE SOIL, WATER national socio-economic AND EN. [...] in the world could be turned around in just a few and the widely accepted legal definition of subsidies under Peer reviews are a mechanism to generate and years through subsidy repurposing and biodiversity the WTO, which defines subsidies share information, exchange knowledge, and create mainstreaming. [...] The introduction of a policy dialogue in 2021 is a green recovery, which similar requirement for regular mandatory reporting is fostering knowledge exchange and peer-to-peer on BHS within the CBD might prove equally valuable, learning between countries and should shift the e.g., on the basis of an agreed BHS definition, focus towards long-term investments in biodiversity identify and quantify BHS. [...] Drawing on the lessons above and the successes A peer review process for subsidy reports could be of similar multilateral environmental agreements and established to guarantee comparability and evaluate learning from past failures to achieve the strategic quality. [...] This would deliver e.g., in the measurement of the negative impacts of clarity on the meaning of ambitious targets in the investment streams.
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