Streamlining CITES: An AWEI Policy Brief for corridor discussions

This policy brief reviews CITES’s agenda and working arrangements with a view to improving its effectiveness and efficiency. It aims to assist Parties and stakeholders in considering how CITES can be streamlined to better deliver on its Vision, which is that, by 2030, all international trade in wild fauna and flora is legal and sustainable…

The recommendations presented are intended to spark informal yet open discussions in the corridors at CoP 20 on how the Convention can refocus on its founding purpose: ensuring that international cooperation prevents the over exploitation of wild species through trade, and that CITES remains fit for purpose in achieving its 2030 Vision. Streamlining CITES is a pathway to revitalising it.