Madagascar towards 2030: navigating progress and challenges for nature and people
Keywords:
IPBES, GBF, SDG, Kunming-Montreal, Biodiversity, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity FrameworkAbstract
Growing calls within the science-policy arena are calling for doing away with with reformist approaches that fail to address the underlying causes of biodiversity loss and engage in an overhaul of how biodiversity conservation is practiced, moving from reform to transformation (IPBES 2024). The urgency of this push stems from the recognition that incremental change under the current business-as-usual trajectory will not deliver the systemic transformation that the global state of the environment needs (Palomo et al. 2024). Madagascar epitomises this situation, particularly given the intrincate relation between biodiversity and human development in the country.
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