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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) includes 16 targets to be achieved by 2010. At its last meeting, the Conference of Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity requested that a revised and updated GSPC be developed going beyond 2010, taking into account current and emerging environmental challenges on plant diversity, within the broader context of and consistent with the new CBD Strategic Plan beyond 2010.

In May 2009, the CBD Secretariat, together with the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation (GPPC) organized a GSPC Liaison Group Meeting, which was hosted in Dublin by the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland.  At this meeting a first draft of a revised GSPC, including an update of the current targets for the period 2010-2020, was developed.

The revised GSPC is now available on the CBD website for peer review, and can be accessed at: www.cbd.int/gspc/gspcreview.  Comments are invited until 1st October 2009. 

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