By 2020, at the latest, biodiversity values have been integrated into national and local development and poverty reduction strategies and planning processes and are being incorporated into national accounting, as appropriate, and reporting systems.
• Decision makers do not appreciate the role of natural resources in supporting the development and progress of productive and service sectors, and the reverse impacts of those sectors on the sustainability of biodiversity and ecosystems. • The ongoing degradation of the natural resources biodiversity and ecosystems are triggered by a variety of driving forces inherent in the existing development plans including the horizontal expansion of agriculture, gold mining and petroleum exploration. • The choice of the Aichi target 2 as a national NBSAP target aims to introduce economic valuation of biological resources as a catalyst for rural development and poverty alleviation into national plans, strategies and policies
Aichi targets