ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book identifies certain prerequisites of regime effectiveness and argued that it might be a more fruitful way of assessing the impact of the regime than focusing on outcomes, i.e. whether biodiversity loss is actually being curtailed. It discusses hampered the effectiveness of the Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA), which faced an almost unworkable agenda. The book demonstrates the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) joined a crowded field, and this forced it to assert its mandate, or at least its legitimate interest, over a range of issues central to its goals. It shows why the outcome-based conception is largely misplaced. The book outlines some of the problems that SBSTTA has encountered, problems again largely related to the scope of the Convention and differing conceptions of SBSTTA's role.
