Since signing the Convention, China has made a great deal of efforts and attempts in biodiversity mainstreaming, making remarkable achievements. At the national level, biodiversity will be included into the Party's congress report, laws and regulations, China's five-year development plan, policies and the government's work agenda, the government's institution-building, EIA, publicity and education,etc. At the sub-national level, biodiversity will be included into key areas of land use, government officials' performance assessment, sectors or industries, and national scientific research. China's progress in biodiversity mainstreaming has greatly promoted the protection and sustainable utilization ofbiodiversity in China.China's efforts and achievements in biodiversity mainstreaming have also been widely recognized and praised by the international community.
In order to share China's successful experience and best practices in the field of biodiversity mainstreaming with other countries and regions in the world,support the fulfillment of the Convention by signatories, and promote the protection and sustainable utilization of biodiversity around the globe, we have collected, excavated, sorted out and refined some successful cases of China's biodiversity mainstreaming efforts to compile this Cases of Biodiversity Mainstreaming in China.
Biodiversity mainstreaming refers to the process of inclusion of biodiversity into the mainstream of national or local development processes in the political,economic, social, military, cultural, educational and environmental protection fields, as well as including it into the production and day-to-day living processes of enterprises, communities and the general populace. With biodiversity included into the mainstream of economic development and social progress, biodiversity protection, economic development and social progress can be carried out simultaneously to avoid the scenario of destruction biodiversity before protection.In this way, problems will be nipped in the bud. Biodiversity mainstreaming is also a fundamental way to change biodiversity protection from an administrative order-based approach to the comprehensive application of law, economy,technology and necessary administrative measures. Therefore, mainstreaming is one of the measures to fundamentally solve the problems related to the protection and sustainable utilization of biodiversity.
Since the Convention on Biological Diversity (herein after referred to as the Convention) entered into force, as an effective measure for biodiversity protection and the sustainable utilization of biological resources, biodiversity mainstreaming has been attached with importance by international organizations, governments and the scientific community. Articles 6 and 10 ofthe Convention clearly stipulate that the protection and sustainable utilization of biodiversity should be included into sectoral and cross-sectoral planning, actions, policies and national decision-making processes as much as possible. As early as 2002, the Ministerial Declaration of the Conference of the Parties to the Hague Convention on Biological Diversity stated:\"The most important lesson we should leam in the past ten years is that the objectives of the Convention cannot be achieved without fully including biodiversity into the work of other sectors\". The Global Environmental Facility (GEF), the financial mechanism of the Convention, has also made biodiversity mainstreaming a priority support strategy. Among the five strategic objectives of Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the first is about biodiversity mainstreaming, that is, to address the main causes of biodiversity loss by biodiversity mainstreaming in the government and the society.
Since signing the Convention, China has made a great deal of efforts and attempts in biodiversity mainstreaming, making remarkable achievements. At the national level, biodiversity will be included into the Party's congress report, laws and regulations, China's five-year development plan, policies and the government's work agenda, the government's institution-building, EIA, publicity and education,etc. At the sub-national level, biodiversity will be included into key areas of land use, government officials' performance assessment, sectors or industries, and national scientific research. China's progress in biodiversity mainstreaming has greatly promoted the protection and sustainable utilization ofbiodiversity in China.China's efforts and achievements in biodiversity mainstreaming have also been widely recognized and praised by the international community.
In order to share China's successful experience and best practices in the field of biodiversity mainstreaming with other countries and regions in the world,support the fulfillment of the Convention by signatories, and promote the protection and sustainable utilization of biodiversity around the globe, we have collected, excavated, sorted out and refined some successful cases of China's biodiversity mainstreaming efforts to compile this Cases of Biodiversity Mainstreaming in China.
Chapter Ⅰ Mainstreaming of Biodiversity into Policies
[Case 1-1 ] Incorporating Biodiversity into the Major Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
[Case 1-2] Requirements for Biodiversity Work in National Strategic Missions
[Case 1-3] Biodiversity becomes an Important Part of National-level Summits
[Case 1 -4] Yunnan Province Identifies Biodiversity in Northwest Yunnan as a Strategic Resource
[Case 1-5] Guangxi Incorporates Biodiversity Impact Assessment into Existing EIA System
[Case 1 -6] Inclusion of Biodiversity into the Assessment Indicator System of County-Ievel Ecological Progress
Chapter Ⅱ Mainstreaming of Biodiversity into Laws and Regulations
[Gase 2-1 ] Integrating Biodiversity into Chinese Satutory Laws
[Case 2-2] Ministry of Environmental Protection Releases Related Industry Standards for Biodiversity
[Case 2-3] Integrating Biodiversity into National Standards for Urban Gardens
[Case 2-4] Incorporating Biodiversity into Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment
[Case 2-5] Inclusion of Biodiversity into Planning EIA
[Case 2-6] Incorporating Biodiversity into Environmental Public
Interest Litigation
[Case 2-7] Incorporating Biodiversity into National Special Supervision and Inspection Campaig
[Case 2-8] China Promulgates Biodiversity-specific Laws and Regulations and Lists
Chapter Ⅲ Mainstreaming of Biodiversity into Governments
[Case 3-1] State Council Sets up National Committee for Biodiversity Conservation
[Case 3-2] Top-Bottom Biodiversity Mainstreaming at the State Level
[Case 3-3] China Promotes Biodiversity Mainstreaming with International Resolutions
[Case 3-4]j China Sets up Special Fiscal Funds for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use
[Case 3-5] Various Sectors Establish Biodiversity Conservation Committees
[Case 3-6] Yunnan Province Establishes the Biodiversity Committee
[Case 3-7] Yunnan Promotes Comprehensive and Multi-Ievel Biodiversity Mainstreaming through Issuing Related Policies
[Case 3-8] PBSAP-A Key Provincial Strategy and Action Plan
[Case 3-9] Taishun Promoting Biodiversity Mainstreaming in Governments
through International Project
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Chapter Ⅳ Mainstreaming of Biodiversityinto Sectors
Chapter Ⅴ Mainstreaming of Biodiversityinto Planning
Chapter Ⅵ Mainstreaming of Biodiversityinto Education
Chapter Ⅶ Mainstreaming of Biodiversityinto Enterprises
Chapter Ⅷ Mainstreaming of Biodiversity into Actions