Jose Octavio Velazquez Gomar

Postgraduate Student

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 39105
Email address: ee08jovg@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 9.157

Qualifications

• BA International Relations, National Autonomous University of Mexico
• MSc Sustainability (Environmental Politics and Policy), University of Leeds

Project details

Project title

Co-ordination, synergy and coherence in the search for the 2010 and 2020 global biodiversity targets

Supervisors

Professor Jouni Paavola and Dr Lindsay Stringer

Funding

National Council on Science and Technology (CONACYT)

Start date

October 2010

Project outline

The 2010 Biodiversity Target and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2002 and 2010 respectively, have been the central focus of international biodiversity policy over the last 10 years. Multiple international organisations and the governing bodies of a number of multilateral environmental agreements have endorsed the Targets and supported the global efforts aimed at their achievement. Synergies between relevant processes have been created at different levels of international policy co-ordination which have impacted on the degree and quality of coherence in policy development and policy implementation within the international governance system for biodiversity.

This research attempts to explore the relationship between co-ordination, synergy and coherence in international biodiversity governance by examining the linkages between the biodiversity-related conventions at international and national levels in the context of efforts to achieve the 2010 and 2020 global biodiversity targets.

Publications

Velázquez Gomar, JO; Stringer, LC (2011) Moving towards sustainability? An analysis of CITES’ conservation policies, Environmental Policy and Governance, 21, pp.240-258. doi:10.1002/eet.577