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Protected areas are an important line of defense in combatting the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss simultaneously.

The standards to MPAs are a synthesis of the existing IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas Standard, together with current relevant policies and positions taken from approved IUCN Resolutions, Recommendations and Guidance documents.

Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity are discussing the new Global Biodiversity Framework to be agreed at COP15. There is strong and growing global support for effectively protecting and conserving at least 30% of the earth’s land, sea and freshwater ecosystems by 2030, as a key requirement for halting and beginning to reverse biodiversity loss, as well as helping  to address the climate crisis. 

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Many of the threats facing biodiversity and protected areas will be exacerbated during, and following, the Covid-19 outbreak. The health of humans, animals and ecosystems are interconnected