Belgium Biodiversity 2020, Update of Belgium’s National Strategy. Country/Territory Belgium Document type Date 2013 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Agricultural & rural development, Wild species & ecosystems Keyword Farming Equity Research Education Cultural heritage Access and benefit-sharing Indigenous peoples Biodiversity Climate change Governance Management/conservation Monitoring Enforcement/compliance PIC-prior informed consent Geographical area Benelux, Europe, EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA, European Union Countries, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Western Europe Abstract The Belgium Biodiversity 2020, Update of Belgium’s National Strategy (Strategy) - developed in line with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) – is Belgium’s principal instrument to support the mainstreaming of biodiversity. The Strategy is an eight-year national multi-sectoral strategy with national coverage and an update of the first version covering 2006-2016. The update seeks to contribute to the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. The Strategy is the Belgian answer to the formal obligation under the CBD and also takes the other commitments made at European and international level into account. It offers a framework for policy- making and further development of actions. It aims at giving strategic political orientations in order to allow actors for biodiversity in Belgium to work in partnership to contribute nationally and internationally towards the achievement of the target of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2020. Full text English