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stuart.BUTCHART
on Wed, 12/19/2018 - 11:54
General Information
Resolution
46433
IUCN Constituent
BirdLife International
IUCN Constituent type
IUCN Member organisation
Period covered
Geographic scope
Global
Actors involved in implementing this Resolution:
IUCN Members
Zoological Society of London ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland )
IUCN Commissions
5B1D7F64-8114-E211-8DEB-002655853524
IUCN Secretariat
Yes
II. Implementation
Activities carried out to implement this Resolution
Activity
Fundraising
Description and results/achievements of activities:
Funding from the EU was secured for the INSPIRE4Nature project, led by CNRS, involving several IUCN Red List Partners, to train 15 PhD students, some of whom will be working on the Red List Index. IUCN Secretariat secured funding from the Swiss Government to develop functionality on the IUCN Red List website to serve up RLIs and various disaggregations of them to users.
The IUCN DG has convened calls with the CEOs of the Red List Partners, and after a decade of existence, join-fundraising efforts are finally underway to secure significant funding for the IUCN Red List, allowing the regular production and update of RLIs based on reassessments.
The IUCN DG has convened calls with the CEOs of the Red List Partners, and after a decade of existence, join-fundraising efforts are finally underway to secure significant funding for the IUCN Red List, allowing the regular production and update of RLIs based on reassessments.
Status
_none
Activity
Policy influencing/advocacy
Description and results/achievements of activities:
The RLI was included in the 2018 SDG report with data for each country updated in the UN SDG indicator database • The RLI and various disaggregations were included in the Third Order Draft of the IPBES Global Assessment, with the indicators extrapolated to 2020 to assess progress towards the Aichi Targets and 2030 for the SDGs, and in each of the IPBES Regional Assessments. • RLIs, disaggregated to national level, were included in the ‘country profiles’ on the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool, and made available to CBD national focal points, among others
Status
On-going
Activity
Scientific/technical activities
Description and results/achievements of activities:
A Red List Index for Wild Relatives of domesticated species of birds and mammals was calculated and published in McGowan et al 2018 Conservation Letters 2018: e12588. • Progress was made towards the 3rd complete assessment for mammals and 2nd for amphibians, but their completion has been delayed, again, to 2019 and 2020 or later respectively. • An EU-funded INSPIRE4Nature project, led by CNRS, has commenced, including a PhD based at Sapienza University Rome, to work on RLI methodologies. • National RLIs have been produced based on repeated assessments of national extinction risk for multiple taxa in South Africa, and for birds in Colombia.
Status
On-going
Describe any challenges encountered in implementing this Resolution and the measures taken
The lack of priority and funding for reassessments is hindering progress in updating the RLI, with the 2nd amphibian assessment still apparently years away, and the mammal reassessment delayed again.
Please report on the result /achievement of the actions taken
A Red List Index for Wild Relatives of domesticated species of birds and mammals was calculated and published in McGowan et al 2018 Conservation Letters 2018: e12588.
The RLI was included in the 2018 SDG report with data for each country updated in the UN SDG indicator database. The RLI and various disaggregations were included in the Third Order Draft of the IPBES Global Assessment, with the indicators extrapolated to 2020 to assess progress towards the Aichi Targets and 2030 for the SDGs, and in each of the IPBES Regional Assessments. • RLIs, disaggregated to national level, were included in the ‘country profiles’ on the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool, and made available to CBD national focal points, among others
The RLI was included in the 2018 SDG report with data for each country updated in the UN SDG indicator database. The RLI and various disaggregations were included in the Third Order Draft of the IPBES Global Assessment, with the indicators extrapolated to 2020 to assess progress towards the Aichi Targets and 2030 for the SDGs, and in each of the IPBES Regional Assessments. • RLIs, disaggregated to national level, were included in the ‘country profiles’ on the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool, and made available to CBD national focal points, among others
Identify and briefly describe what future actions/activities are planned for the implementation of this Resolution
Future action / activity
Fundraising
Description
Continue to raise funds to support reassessments
Future action / activity
Policy influencing/advocacy
Description
Promote RLI throyugh SDGs and as an indicator for the new post-2020 framework on biodievrsity to be negotiated through the CBD.
Future action / activity
Scientific/technical activities
Description
Continue to advance methods for production of the RLI. Develop portal on Red List website to serve up RLIs to users.
Report status
Published
Constituent type
IUCN Member