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Planning as a tool is underused, not always embedded in solid legal frameworks or not always properly implemented. Through a combination of global reviews and in-country assessments, target countries will be provided with advice, guidance, and assistance in demonstration activities.

Law is important for the implementation of the CBD Strategic Plan, because:

• The sectoral fi elds must be integrated into legal instruments and principles as well as institutional frameworks refl ecting different strategic goals and targets

• Certain principles, rights, procedures and organizational set-ups are equally applicable to strategic goals e.g. access to information and public participation

• The development of legal instruments and principles ensures long-term planning and further embedding of the CBD Strategic Plan and Aichi targets

Implementing the CBD Strategic Plan. Integrating biodiversity and climate change in planning laws of Colombia, Tanzania and Vietnam.

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Law plays a critical role in planning as it shapes all types of governance and decision-making, in-cluding natural resource and climate governance. The role and strength of law in implementing the CBD Strategic Plan is that it can:

IUCN is working on integrating climate change and biodiversity concerns into spatial planning frameworks, including a global study assessing sixteen jurisdictions and three on the ground case studies.

• Give a clear and transparent mandate for decision-making;

• Provide reliability and certainty;

• Transition non-binding policy guidance into legally binding obligations that are enforceable through the judiciary.

Colombia

• Mainstreaming biodiversity, ecosystem ser-vices and climate change considerations and decisions in spatial planning is an ongoing task in Colombia; some very important steps forward have been made already

• The National Environmental System, has been an active part of the spatial planning of the country

• In Colombia adopted the “National Policy for the Integrated Management of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services”, which includes valu-able criteria, guidelines and recommendations for the sectorial and spatial management of the biodiversity and ecosystem services

• It is necessary to recognize and rethink ter-ritorial planning in Colombia, beyond its tech-nical, political and administrative defi nitions, as a process that orders the integral socio ecological dynamic

Tanzania

• Most of Tanzania’s threats to biodiversity and the environment are an outcome of land use practices

• Tanzania is positively contributing to the implementation of the CBD, and the Aichi targets and in particular

• Mainstream land use planning laws in Tanzania have general provisions on integrat-ing climate change and biodiversity issues into spatial planning frameworks, while sectoral policies and laws have more elaborate provi-sions

• Strategic plans, action plans, guidelines and programmes show the extent to which Tanzania is striving to attain Aichi targets and

Vietnam

• Conservation and sustainable use of biodiver-sity and climate change increasingly gained recognition as two priority policy issues in many national strategies and other policy documents

• The critical value of biodiversity and function-ing of ecosystems for human well-being and development has also been highlighted and anchored by the Vietnamese government in a number of sectoral strategies

• Vietnam’s protected area system expanded signifi cantly to over natural parks and conservation territories in total accounting for about . million hectares, or percent of Vietnam’s total land area

• Many of the objectives laid out in a number of strategies well refl ect the Aichi targets, and contribute to the implementation of the CBD Strategic Plan for Biodiversity within Vietnam

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ZAMBIA

VIETNAM

COLOMBIA

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