Agenda Urbana de Arteixo

15.1 By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and the services they provide, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in accordance with obligations under international agreements.

15.2 By 2020, promote sustainable management of all types of forests, end deforestation, restore degraded forests and increase afforestation and reforestation globally.

15.3 By 2030, combat desertification, rehabilitate degraded lands and soils, including lands affected by desertification, drought and flooding, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world.

15.4 By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biological diversity, in order to enhance their capacity to provide essential benefits for sustainable development.

15.5 Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biological diversity and, by 2020, protect threatened species and prevent their extinction.

15.6 Promote fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to those resources, as internationally agreed.

15.7 Take urgent measures to end poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and address the illegal demand for and supply of wild products.

15.8 By 2020, take measures to prevent the introduction of invasive alien species and significantly reduce their impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and control or eradicate priority species.

15.9 By 2020, integrate ecosystem values ​​and biological diversity into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounting.

15.a Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biological diversity and ecosystems.

15.b Mobilize a substantial volume of resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to promote such management, particularly with a view to conservation and reforestation.

15.c Increase global support for combating poaching and trafficking of protected species, in particular by increasing the capacity of local communities to promote sustainable livelihood opportunities.