Indicate which actions have been carried out to implement this Resolution :
Convene stakeholders/Networking
Education/Communication/Raising awareness
Policy influencing/advocacy
Scientific/technical activities
Describe the results/achievements of the actions taken:
In addition to IUCN res 105, members of ICRI, including more than 45 countries, custodians of over 75% of the world’s coral reefs, overwhelmingly adopted a consensus recommendation to urge CBD party governments:
- to ensure that the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) prioritises coral reefs as one of our most vulnerable and important ecosystems;
- to apply a strategic approach focused on retention;
- to adopt key indicators for coral reefs to incentivize action and increase accountability.
Since December 2021 as agreed by ICRI members, policy, advocacy, stakeholder engagement, and communication efforts have centred on three simplified asks:
1. Prioritise the vulnerable ecosystems we depend on, particularly coral reefs;
2. Retain the integrity of existing coral reef ecosystems and restore around them; and
3. Adopt global coral reef indicators.
ICRI communication campaign (continuously running from May 2020) communication sub group formation, including Vulcan, WCS, IUCN, CORAL, UNEP, Reef-World, WWF, and others.
coralpost2020.org hub site established in May 2020 and growing through 2021 and 2022. The hub provides access to all of the outputs of the ad hoc Committee, including links to the Recommendation (including translations); FAQ; articles, communication resources and visual assets (translated); articles and Negotiation/ policy support tools. This work specifically addressed 1a and b of the IUCN Resolution 105.
Established #ForCoral hashtag, very successful and continuously in use social media hashtag.
An ad-hoc committee was established by ICRI at the 33rd ICRI General Meeting, December 2018, to follow the CBD post-2020 GBF development process and contribute to matters on the critical status of coral reefs and how these can be sufficiently addressed within the GBF. This has continued without ceasing through 2022.
What challenges/obstacles have been encountered in the implementation of this Resolution and how were they overcome :
ICRI and partners such as Vulcan and WCS have been doing a masterful work in progressing the three asks with a committed consortium of members. Various members and child organisations such as Cordio and the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network have been contributing meaningful science and excellent communications. However, IUCN Secretariat implementation and assistance has been extremely limited in its capacity, almost reduced to observer and supporter status.
Briefly describe what future actions are needed for the implementation of this Resolution:
Greater funding. The partners are skilled, committed, and efficient, so simply require greater resourcing to make a bigger difference and likely achieve IUCN Resolution 105 goals in full.
Are these actions planned for yet:
