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Global Biodiversity Outlook 2 assesses the current status and trends of biodiversity and the key drivers of biodiversity loss. It provides a powerful case for the importance of biodiversity to human well-being. The report contains a succinct overview of the status of the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity, progress towards the 2010 Biodiversity Target and its contribution to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Published almost at the halfway point of the 2011–2020 Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, this fourth edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-4) provides a timely report: on progress towards meeting the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets and potential actions to accelerate that progress; on prospects for achieving the 2050 Vision on ‘Living in Harmony with Nature’; and on the importance of biodiversity in meeting broader goals for sustainable human development during this century.

This study identifies and assesses the diversity of ecosystem services, and in turn the benefits that World Heritage sites can deliver to society and the economy through direct and indirect use or through inherent 'non-use' values. It also aims to increase awareness and understanding of the multiple services and benefits that ecosystems can provide as well  as their contribution to the well-being of local, national and global communities.

The Protected Planet Report series, launched in 2012, helps track international progress towards achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 - a target for the global protected area network and for other related targets. One of the key messages of the 2012 Protected Planet Report was that a better understanding and more complete overview of each element of Target 11 would be helpful. The 2014 Protected Planet Report provides just such an overview by summarizing current knowledge and progress towards each element of the overall target. 

Las áreas bajo protección privada merecen un reconocimiento y respaldo mucho mayores que el que reciben en este momento. Las áreas bajo protección privada a menudo pueden llenar importantes vacíos en las politicas nacionales en cuanto a la cobertura geográfica y la velocidad de respuesta a los desafíos de conservación, pero constituyen un recurso oculto: son ignoradas por gobiernos, omitarget_idas por los mecanismos de registro de conservación internacional y pasadas por alto en las estrategias regionales de conservación.