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Goal 4: Enhancing Implementation

It will be vital for the survival of wetlands and the success of the Convention for Parties to enhance implementation of the Strategic Plan. Various approaches will help strengthen the implementation of the three Strategic Goals, and ultimately of the Convention itself. They involve critical actions to be undertaken by Contracting Parties themselves, and in partnership with other Parties and other entities, in particular with regard to scientific and technical advice and guidance, resource mobilization, public awareness, visibility and capacity building. The Ramsar Secretariat will also play a vital role in raising awareness and visibility of the Convention, as well as mobilizing resources to support enhanced implementation.

Targets

Scientific guidance and technical methodologies at global and regional levels are developed on relevant topics and are available to policy makers and practitioners in an appropriate format and language.
Ramsar Regional Initiatives with the active involvement and support of the Parties in each region are reinforced and developed into effective tools to assist in the full implementation of the Convention.
Wetlands conservation and wise use are mainstreamed through communication, capacity development, education, participation and awareness.
Financial and other resources for effectively implementing the 4th Ramsar Strategic Plan 2016 – 2024 from all sources are made available.
International cooperation is strengthened at all levels.
Capacity building for implementation of the Convention and the 4th Ramsar Strategic Plan 2016 – 2024 is enhanced.
Alignments and linkages
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Goal 1: No poverty:
End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Goal 2: Zero hunger:
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation:
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure:
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities:
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
Goal 13: Climate action:
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Goal 15: Life on land:
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions:
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals:
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
Target 15: Businesses Assess, Disclose and Reduce Biodiversity-Related Risks and Negative Impacts:
Take legal, administrative or policy measures to encourage and enable business, and in particular to ensure that large and transnational companies and financial institutions: (a) Regularly monitor, assess, and transparently disclose their risks, dependencies and impacts on biodiversity, including with requirements for all large as well as transnational companies and financial institutions along their operations, supply and value chains, and portfolios; (b) Provide information needed to consumers to promote sustainable consumption patterns; (c) Report on compliance with access and benefit-sharing regulations and measures, as applicable; in order to progressively reduce negative impacts on biodiversity, increase positive impacts, reduce biodiversity-related risks to business and financial institutions, and promote actions to ensure sustainable patterns of production.