Australia’s National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development (1992) contains strategic approaches, objectives and actions for various sectors as well as cross-sectoral issues including biodiversity'. One of the core objectives of the strategy is to protect biological diversity and maintain essential ecological processes and life-support systems21 (Australian Government, 1992). For instance, India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (Gol, 2008) contains eight national missions, two of which specifically relate to biodiversity.