Comparing Mechanisms and Metrics for the Conservation of Continental Waters with a Focus on South America
Small Room
Pew Charitable Trusts presents river protection initiatives are advancing worldwide using a range of policy, flow-based, and area-based tools. This will be a roundtable reflection on challenges in measuring and scaling up progress.
This roundtable will provide a space for reflecting on progress in protection of continental waters using different approaches with a focus on South America, as well as how these might best be measured and scaled up within the Global Biodiversity Framework. Brief cases will be presented on water flow reserves, use of Ramsar for river protection, rights of nature, and protected area coverage of river corridors. Participants will discuss the relevance of these approaches to global initiatives and the targets established in international frameworks such as the Global Biodiversity Framework, Sustainable Development Goals, and the Freshwater Challenge, and the needs and challenges for common metrics to assess progress.