The primary objective of this theme is to work toward positioning protected and conserved areas prominently on the biodiversity, human health, climate and restoration agendas. As the world responds to a zoonotic pandemic, parties to United Nations conventions on biodiversity and climate are committing to ambitious new targets for area-based conservation. This theme will prepare the Commission to help realize the ambitions of these new commitments, alongside a shift from intentions to demonstrable outcomes. Among others, the 30x30 target (of the CBD Global Biodiversity Framework) requires a radical rethink of approach; in theory WCPA could be providing technical support to a third of the planet’s surface. The expert-driven volunteer system of WCPA that has served well until now will no longer be sufficient and a major scaling up is urgently needed. This includes but is not limited to nature-based solutions, with special attention to issues of good governance, legitimate rights and social equity. Area-based conservation measures such as protected and conserved areas are critically important mechanisms for ecosystem protection, management and restoration, and thus a key category of NbS approaches. This remit is intentionally broad, open to respond to the radical change that science tells us is required.

The mission of QLF Atlantic Center for the Environment is to: • Support the communities and environment of eastern Canada and New England; and • Create models for stewardship of natural resources and cultural heritage that can be applied worldwide.We define stewardship as: Efforts to create, nurture and enable responsibility in landowners and resource users to manage and protect land and its natural and cultural heritage.

The Stewardship Institute (formerly the Conservation Study Institute) is a collaborative for change, from the way it is organized, to how it works. The origin of the Institute is rooted in the idea that the National Park Service is an organization of great public purpose and that its people — charged with the stewardship of some of America's greatest treasures — need to be supported, challenged, and provided opportunities for renewal.At the Stewardship Institute, we help National Park Service leaders move the organization in new directions. Our approach is collaborative, convening people of diverse training and experience, stewarding the National Park Service into the 21st century.Projects include NPS Urban Agenda; New Parks, New Partnerships; Collaborative Conservation.

Consulting in international development, protected area governance and effectiveness