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REVIEW article

Front. Conserv. Sci.
Sec. Plant Conservation
Volume 5 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2024.1383370

Preserving Earth's flora in the 21 st Century: Climate, Biodiversity, and Global Change Factors (GCFs) since the mid-1940s

Provisionally accepted
Dexter A. MOSOH Dexter A. MOSOH 1,2*Om Prakash Om Prakash 3Wagner Vendrame Wagner Vendrame 4Ashok K. Khandel Ashok K. Khandel 5Rohit Sharma Rohit Sharma 2
  • 1 Sage University(Bhopal), Bhopal, India
  • 2 Centre for Biodiversity Exploration and Conservation (CBEC), 15, Kundan Residency, 4th Mile Mandla Road, Tilhari, Jabalpur, 482021, MP, India
  • 3 Symbiosis Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, Maharashtra, India
  • 4 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States
  • 5 Centre of Excellence in Research & Entrepreneurship Development, Bambooram Agro PVT. LTD., Khasra 6/13, Gadiya, Bilkisganj, Sehore, MP, 466111, India, Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India

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    Climate change and biodiversity conservation are two of the twenty-first century's most pressing issues. Global climate forecasts strongly suggest that the frequency and magnitude of climate-related events will increase, resulting in progressively severe global impacts, particularly on plant diversity. Despite the historic 2015 Paris Agreement, limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and climate financing remain major issues today, with negotiations to meet these targets still ongoing. The National Biodiversity Strategic Action Plan (NBSAP), a mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), has not been effectively implemented at the country level, and in some cases, these NBSAPs lack explicit biodiversity goals. This review presents a comprehensive view of these issues, with a particular emphasis on the challenges and shortcomings of current climate and biodiversity conservation policies or measures. It discusses the effectiveness of the Kew conservation strategy as a role model for effective plant diversity protection and conservation, as well as the critical role that Plant Tissue Culture technology (PTC) can play in the plant-related goals of the 30-by-30 post-2020 global biodiversity conservation framework, which is strongly support in this review. It concludes by proposing and elaborating on a Kew-Wide Mechanism (KWM) that can be used to aid climate change resilience, mitigate anthropogenic plant diversity loss, energize global plant conservation efforts, and accelerate ecosystem restoration while the global economy gradually decarbonizes.

    Keywords: 30-by-30 targets -Terrestrial Biomes, Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Conservation Framework, Kew-Wide Mechanism (KWM), Plant Tissue Culture Technology, Plant conservation policy, Climate Change, Plant diversity loss, Sixth extinction

    Received: 08 Feb 2024; Accepted: 15 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 MOSOH, Prakash, Vendrame, Khandel and Sharma. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Dexter A. MOSOH, Sage University(Bhopal), Bhopal, India

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