Key Biodiversity Area conservation in a post-2020 world

The Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was agreed and published in 2016 and launched at the WCC in Hawaii. At the same time 11 global conservation organisations came together to establish the KBA Partnership which has since grown to 13 institutions. This session will highlight the growing engagement of countries around the world in identifying KBAs at a national scale. The relevance of KBAs to global conservation, the CBD, and SDGs will be demonstrated along with why KBAs should be a crucial component of the post2020 Global Biodiversity Framework agenda.