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The GSPC - A Plan to Save the World's Plant Species

The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation grew out of the Convention on Biological Diversity and is being fed into government policy around the world.

The GSPC highlights the importance of plants and the ecosystem services they provide for all life on earth, and aims to ensure their conservation

The vision of the GSPC is:

"Without plants, there is no life. The functioning of the planet, and our survival, depends on plants. The Strategy seeks to halt the continuing loss of plant diversity."

The mission of the GSPC is:

"The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation is a catalyst for working together at al levels - local, national, regional and global - to understand, conserve and use sustainably  the world's immense wealth of plant diversity whilst promoting awareness and building the necesary capcities for its implementation."

The GSPC has 5 main objectives:

• Plant diversity is well understood, documented and recognized
• Plant diversity is urgently and effectively conserved
• Plant diversity is used in a sustainable and equitable manner
• Education and awareness about plant diversity, its role in sustainable livelihoods and importance to all life on Earth is promoted
• The capacities and public engagement necessary to implement the strategy have been developed.

The GSPC includes of 16 targets for conservation to be achieved by 2020.

 More information about the GSPC is available on the GSPC toolkit webite: http://www.plants2020.net/

Download a flyer on the GSPC here:    

The text of the  2020 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) is available in English here

This document is also available in Fench, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian on the CBD website (Decision X/17): http://www.cbd.int/decisions/cop/?m=cop-10

The draft technical rationale, justification for updating and suggested milestones and indicators is available here. This document is in the process of revision and updating. Other language versions are available on the CBD website: http://www.cbd.int/gspc/documents.shtml