Belarus: Updating National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan in line with CBD COP-10 Strategic Plan, Preparing 5th National Report and Reenforcing Clearing House Mechanism

The CBD Strategic Plan, adopted at CBD CoP-10 in 2010 in Nagoya (Japan) envisages that each country should develop, by 2012, national biodiversity targets and indicators for 2020, and update its NBSAP by 2014 in line with the Aichi targets. The most recent NBSAP was adopted by Government of Belarus in November 2010. This is a brief document which sets the overall framework for our country to preserve its biodiversity. Although this version of NBSAP refers to the outcomes of the COP-10, it was finalized almost exactly at the time of Nagoya COP. By then, most of its content had already been completed by experts and consulted with stakeholders. There was no thorough analysis, nor stakeholder consultations on integrating the outcomes of the COP-10, in the first place of the Aichi Targets. Therefore, the current version of NBSAP is not sufficient to implement the CBD COP-10 decisions. Specifically, the NBSAP of Belarus needs to be detalized or completed with several elements of the CBD Strategic Plan, such as: