Monday,February 5, 2024

PBSAP Assessment and Updating

The Biodiversity Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources spearheads the conduct of series of Consultation Workshop on the Assessment and Updating of the Philippine Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (PBSAP) in line with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF). The Visayas-Mindanao cluster leg of the regional consultations was held last August 14 – 18, 2023 in Cebu City. The north and south Luzon cluster consultation was held last February and April 2024. Aside from the regional consultation, series of experts group meeting were also held last 2023. Below are the list of concluded consultations:

 

ConsultationDate Conducted
Sub-committee Meeting on Biological Diversity 02 June 2023
First Experts Group Meeting 27 July 2023
Visayas-Mindanao Cluster 15-17 August 2023
Northwestern Mindanao Cluster 3-5 October 2023
Southwestern Mindanao Cluster 5-7 December  2023
North Luzon Cluster6-8 February 2024
South Luzon Cluster 15-19 April 2024
National Consultation5-8 August 2024

 

 

Outputs of the regional consultations were consolidated, presented and discussed with the country’s biodiversity experts during the National Consultation for the assessment and updating of the PBSAP successfully held last August 5-8, 2024 in Tagaytay City. The 3 major outputs presented were the progress and alignment of the current PBSAP to the KM-GBF, proposed action plan including biodiversity finance plan and areas identified for collaboration.

 

Visual sketch of the PBSAP Framework resulting from the National consultations (draft)

 

The KMGBF-PBSAP Wheel