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    Reduce Harmful Incentives by at Least $500 Billion per Year, and Scale Up Positive Incentives for Biodiversity
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    Strengthen Capacity-Building, Technology Transfer, and Scientific and Technical Cooperation for Biodiversity
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    Ensure That Knowledge Is Available and Accessible To Guide Biodiversity Action
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    Awareness increased
    Target2
    Biodiversity values integrated
    Target3
    Incentives reformed
    Target4
    Sustainable production and consumption
    Target5
    Habitat loss halved or reduced
    Target6
    Sustainable management of marine living resources
    Target7
    Sustainable agriculture, aquaculture and forestry
    Target8
    Pollution reduced
    Target9
    Invasive alien species prevented and controlled
    Target10
    Pressures on vulnerable ecosystems reduced
    Target11
    Protected areas increased and improved
    Target12
    Extinction prevented
    Target13
    Genetic diversity maintained
    Target14
    Ecosystems and essential services safeguarded
    Target15
    Ecosystems restored and resilience enhanced
    Target16
    Nagoya Protocol in force and operational
    Target17
    NBSAPs adopted as policy instrument
    Target18
    Traditional knowledge respected and integrated
    Target19
    Knowledge improved, shared and applied
    Target20
    Financial resources from all sources increased
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    What does each Target means
    Target1
    Plan and Manage all Areas To Reduce Biodiversity Loss
    Target2
    Restore 30% of all Degraded Ecosystems
    Target3
    Conserve 30% of Land, Waters and Seas
    Target4
    Halt Species Extinction, Protect Genetic Diversity, and Manage Human-Wildlife Conflicts
    Target5
    Ensure Sustainable, Safe and Legal Harvesting and Trade of Wild Species
    Target6
    Reduce the Introduction of Invasive Alien Species by 50% and Minimize Their Impact
    Target7
    Reduce Pollution to Levels That Are Not Harmful to Biodiversity
    Target8
    Minimize the Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Build Resilience
    Target9
    Manage Wild Species Sustainably To Benefit People
    Target10
    Enhance Biodiversity and Sustainability in Agriculture, Aquaculture, Fisheries, and Forestry
    Target11
    Restore, Maintain and Enhance Nature’s Contributions to People
    Target12
    Enhance Green Spaces and Urban Planning for Human Well-Being and Biodiversity
    Target13
    Increase the Sharing of Benefits From Genetic Resources, Digital Sequence Information and Traditional Knowledge
    Target14
    Integrate Biodiversity in Decision-Making at Every Level
    Target15
    Businesses Assess, Disclose and Reduce Biodiversity-Related Risks and Negative Impacts
    Target16
    Enable Sustainable Consumption Choices To Reduce Waste and Overconsumption
    Target17
    Strengthen Biosafety and Distribute the Benefits of Biotechnology
    Target18
    Reduce Harmful Incentives by at Least $500 Billion per Year, and Scale Up Positive Incentives for Biodiversity
    Target19
    Mobilize $200 Billion per Year for Biodiversity From all Sources, Including $30 Billion Through International Finance
    Target20
    Strengthen Capacity-Building, Technology Transfer, and Scientific and Technical Cooperation for Biodiversity
    Target21
    Ensure That Knowledge Is Available and Accessible To Guide Biodiversity Action
    Target22
    Ensure Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice and Information Related to Biodiversity for all
    Target23
    Ensure Gender Equality and a Gender-Responsive Approach for Biodiversity Action
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    Goal2
    Zero hunger
    Goal3
    Good health and well-being
    Goal4
    Quality education
    Goal5
    Gender equality
    Goal6
    Clean water and sanitation
    Goal7
    Affordable and clean energy
    Goal8
    Decent work and economic growth
    Goal9
    Industry, innovation, infrastructure
    Goal10
    Reduced inequalities
    Goal11
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Goal12
    Responsible consumption, production
    Goal13
    Climate action
    Goal14
    Life below water
    Goal15
    Life on land
    Goal16
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Goal17
    Partnerships for the goals
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  • About the SDM

About the SDM

The Satoyama Development Mechanism (SDM) is one of the collaborative activities of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI). It serves as a financing mechanism to facilitate the implementation of activities under IPSI.
The SDM was established jointly by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) and the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ).

About the SDM

Vision and mission

“Satoyama” is a Japanese term representing “socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes” or SEPLS, which are dynamic mosaics of habitats and land/sea uses providing the goods and services needed for human life while being managed to maintain biodiversity. The Satoyama Initiative, advocated by the Government of Japan and United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), and endorsed at the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP10) in 2010 in Aichi, Japan, is a global effort to realise "societies in harmony with nature" through landscape approaches to biodiversity conservation and human well-being, particularly in SEPLS. The International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) facilitates a broad range of activities to implement the concepts of the Satoyama Initiative by diverse stakeholders. The Satoyama Development Mechanism (SDM) is a financing mechanism to promote actions under IPSI towards the vision of the Satoyama Initiative: societies in harmony with nature.

Through seed funding, the SDM encourages IPSI members to: i) create innovations and best practices; ii) integrate governance and knowledge particularly indigenous and local knowledge; and/or iii) mobilise people, partnerships and resources.

Figure 1. Vision and mission of the SDM

Scope

The SDM provides funding for convincing projects that enhance actions towards the IPSI Strategic Objectives, and thereby the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF). The IPSI Strategy and Plan of Action for 2023-2030 contains the following five strategic objectives: i) knowledge co-production, management and uptake; ii) institutional frameworks and capacity development; iii) area-based conservation measures; iv) ecosystem restoration; and v) sustainable value chain development. Relating to these objectives, the SDM focuses specifically on supporting the development of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs); landscape or seascape restoration; conservation and collaboration with indigenous peoples and local communities; resilience enhancement; and sustainable food or material production.

Further, the SDM facilitates collective contributions of the funded projects to IPSI and the global goals (e.g. KMGBF, Sustainable Development Goals) by sharing experience among projects and generating meta-knowledge on SEPLS.

Figure 2. Scope of the SDM

There are four types of projects in the SDM as seen below. The recipients select one of them in line with their project objectives:

  • On-site actions: e.g. community-based conservation; sustainable practices; alternative livelihoods; technology application; and tree planting
  • Partnership building: e.g., institutionalisation; scaling-up or out; multi-stakeholder platforms; community of practitioners; and experience sharing
  • Research: e.g. Satoyama Initiative Thematic Review (SITR); baseline or evidence base for project appraisal; peer-reviewed papers; and books
  • Education: e.g. textbooks; picturebooks; e-learning; field schooling; alternative education programmes; and youth-elderly knowledge exchange

Governance

The SDM organisation is composed of three entities, the Executive Board, the Advisory Group, and the SDM Secretariat.

Executive Board

The Executive Board is responsible for making decisions on, and supervising the implementation of, the SDM. This includes the selection of projects, review and evaluation of achievements, and dissemination of information on the SDM.
It is represented by the following organisations:

  • 環境省 Ministry of the Environment

    Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ)visit website

  • UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY

    The United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)visit website

  • IGES Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

    The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)visit website

Advisory Group

The Advisory Group provides advice on the design of the SDM. Their advice helps ensure the relevance of SDM projects to the IPSI Strategy and Plan of Action and other global frameworks including the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They also advise on the compilation and dissemination of SDM outcomes.
The following members of the Advisory Group have been appointed by the Executive Board:

  • IPSI members with relevant experience and qualification in similar grant management and activities of the CBD, and
  • the Chair of the IPSI Steering Committee

SDM Secretariat

The SDM Secretariat is mandated to implement SDM operations including, but not limited to, the tasks listed below. These tasks are subject to the decisions made by the Executive Board and implemented under its supervision.

  • Planning and implementing the SDM project selection process
  • Contracting and disbursing funds to the selected Grant recipients
  • Monitoring and evaluating the SDM projects
  • Collecting, organizing and disseminating knowledge generated by the SDM projects
  • Reporting on the above activities to the Executive Board

The Secretariat staff are staff of the following organisations:

  • Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
  • United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)