The event also strove to learn from Aichi’s failure to work toward creating a concrete and equitable implementation process for the GBF. It brought together key decision makers, government officials, and youth to identify ways to build and enhance an intergenerational partnership to avoid a repeat of the shortcoming witnessed with the Aichi Targets. Within this context, the GYBN convened a side event to further explore these issues. So far, youth have been overlooked in the Aichi targets and CBD Strategic plans, but as the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) has been demonstrating over the past 12 years, youth can be and are key players whose support can help achieve targets an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF) would set. While the goals were ambitious, they lacked a fair, just, and proper implementation process and the targets missed their mark, leaving future generations extremely vulnerable to degrading ecosystems and handing them a world they had no role in creating. None of the 20 targets have been achieved, and 13 show no progress or are moving away from the goal. Entering a new decade on the shaky foundations of an ecological crisis comes at the back of the failure to achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
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