2024 HDH
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Address SDGs 15:

Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

Compared to other SDGs, such as the mentioned SDGs 13 and 14, this particularly has more specific targets. The reason is fairly obvious since humans possess a deeper and more thorough understanding of lands than oceans. These understandings, alongside the interest of different parties, quickly developed into a variety of ways to utilize resources on land, especially utilizing it in a non-renewable way.


That being said, SDG 15 aims to tackle the recurring crisis by detailing every possible aspect to make the situation even just slightly better with the targets being:

  1. conserve and restore terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems
  2. end deforestation and restore degraded forests;
  3. end desertification and restore degraded land;
  4. ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems;
  5. coverage of important sites for mountain biodiversity;
  6. vegetation coverage of mountainous areas;
  7. protect biodiversity and natural habitats;
  8. protect access to genetic resources and fair sharing of the benefits;
  9. benefits of sharing genetic resources;
  10. eliminate poaching and trafficking of protected species;
  11. wildlife poaching and trafficking;
  12. prevent invasive alien species on land and in water ecosystems;
  13. prevent invasive alien species;
  14. integrate ecosystem and biodiversity in governmental planning;
  15. integration of ecosystem and biodiversity in planning;
  16. increase financial resources to conserve and sustainably use ecosystems and biodiversity;
  17. official development assistance for biodiversity;
  18. finance and incentivize sustainable forest management;
  19. official development assistance for forest management;
  20. combat global poaching and trafficking;
  21. poaching and trafficking wildlife;

Adding on the status quo, in these few years, wildlife and forest crime have become a low-risk yet high-profit transnational organized crime. While the UNODC is pursuing its effort with respect of “law enforcement, prosecution, judiciary, and relevant stakeholders at the national and international level to address this issue,” they also show their explicit support for SDG 15, in particular Target 15.7. As UNODC also takes part in the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife (ICCWC), they aim to provide support to countries to reach SDG 15 in combating organized wildlife and forest crime through a legislative and public evidence-based system.


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