End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Reduce inequality within and among countries

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

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

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

Forest area as a proportion of total land area

Proportion of important sites for terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity that are covered by protected areas, by ecosystem type

Percentage of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystem types that are well protected

Progress towards sustainable forest management

Percentage of forest within formally proclaimed protected areas

Proportion of land that is degraded over total land area

Coverage by protected areas of important sites for mountain biodiversity

Percentage of mountain ecosystem types that are well-represented in protected areas

Number of countries that have adopted legislative, administrative and policy frameworks to ensure fair and equitable sharing of benefits

Number of Bio-prospecting/Biotrade Permits and Biodiversity Sharing Agreements issued/approved

Proportion of traded wildlife that was poached or illicitly trafficked

Proportion of countries adopting relevant national legislation and adequately resourcing the prevention or control of invasive alien species

(a) South Africa has established national targets in accordance with or similar to Aichi Biodiversity Target 2 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 in their national biodiversity strategy and action plans and the progress reported towards these targets; and (b) integration of biodiversity into national accounting and reporting systems, defined as implementation of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (YES=1; NO=0)

Official development assistance and public expenditure on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems

Conserve and Restore Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems

Stop Desertification and Restore Degraded Land

Ensure Conservation of Mountain Ecosystems

Protect Biodiversity and Natural Habitats

Promote Fair Share of Benefits from, and Access to Genetic Resources

Eliminate Poaching and Trafficking of Protected Species

Prevent Invasive Alien Species on Land and in Water Ecosystems

Integrate Ecosystem and Biodiversity in Governmental Planning

Increase Financial Resources to Conserve and Sustainably Use Ecosystem and Biodiversity

Finance and Incentivize Sustainable Forest Management

Goal 15 Life on land

Targets

Target 15.1

Target 15.2

Target 15.3

Target 15.4

Target 15.5

Target 15.6

Target 15.7

Target 15.8

Target 15.9

Target 15.A

Target 15.B

Target 15.C

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