Box 3.2 Programmes of work of the Convention
AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY
Key activities:
- Analyse the status and trends of the world’s agricultural biodiversity
- Identify management practices and technologies that promote the positive and mitigate the negative impacts of agriculture on biodiversity
- Strengthen the capacities of farmers and indigenous and local communities to sustainably manage agricultural biodiversity
- Develop national plans or strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of agricultural biodiversity
BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF DRY AND SUB-HUMID LANDS
Key activities:
- Assess the status and trends of biodiversity in dry and sub-humid lands
- Identify specific areas of value for biodiversity
- Develop indicators of dry and sub-humid land biodiversity
- Build knowledge on ecological, physical and social processes affecting biodiversity
- Identify local and global benefits derived from dry and sub-humid land biodiversity
- Identify best management practices and promote measures for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
- Support sustainable livelihoods
FOREST BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
Key activities:
- Apply the Ecosystem Approach to forest management
- Reduce the threats to forest biodiversity
- Protect, recover and restore forest biodiversity
- Promote the sustainable use of forest biodiversity
- Promote the sharing of benefits resulting from the use of forest genetic resources
- Enhance the institutional enabling environment
- Address socio-economic failures and distortions
- Increase public education, participation and awareness
- Improve the assessment of forest biodiversity and understanding of ecosystem functioning
- Improve information management for assessment and monitoring
INLAND WATER BIODIVERSITY
Key activities:
- Integrate biodiversity into water-resource and river-basin management and relevant sectoral plans and policies
- Establish and maintain systems of protected inland water ecosystems
- Prevent the introduction of invasive alien species
- Encourage the application of low-cost technology and innovative approaches to water-resource management
- Provide incentives for the conservation and sustainable use of inland water biodiversity
- Develop an improved understanding of inland water biodiversity and the threats to inland water ecosystems
- Apply rigorous impact assessments
- Introduce monitoring arrangements for inland water biodiversity
MARINE AND COASTAL BIODIVERSITY
Key activities:
- Implement integrated marine and coastal area management (IMCAM)
- Promote the conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal living resources
- Establish and maintain effective marine and coastal protected areas
- Prevent or minimize negative effects of mariculture
- Prevent the introduction of invasive alien species
MOUNTAIN BIODIVERSITY
Key activities:
- Prevent and mitigate the impacts of key threats to mountain biodiversity
- Protect, recover and restore mountain biodiversity
- Promote the sustainable use of mountain biological resources
- Promote access to, and sharing of, benefits arising from the use of genetic resources
- Maintain genetic diversity in mountain ecosystems
- Enhance the legal, policy and institutional framework
- Preserve knowledge and practices of indigenous and local communities
- Establish regional and transboundary collaboration
- Improve identification, assessment and monitoring of mountain biodiversity
- Improve research, cooperation, technology transfer and other forms of capacity-building
- Increase public education, participation and awareness
ISLAND BIODIVERSITY
Key activities:
- Conserve and restore key terrestrial and marine ecosystems important for island biodiversity, societies and economies
- Establish national and regional systems of protected areas to conserve viable populations of selected island species
- Improve knowledge of and conserve the genetic material of significance to islands
- Prevent the movement of invasive alien species between and within islands and develop long-term management plans for priority species
- Implement climate change adaptation and mitigation measures in land-use and coastal zone planning and strategies
Source & © CBD  Global Biodiversity Outlook 2 (2006),
Chapter 3: Implementing the convention on biological diversity, p.48
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