Climate Change and Biodiversity

Synthesis report on experiences with ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

Biodiversity and Climate Change: Making use of the findings of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report

CBD Briefing note: Opportunities to address climate change and support biodiversity through better management of ecosystems

CBD Technical Series 41: Biodiversity and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Report of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change

It is now widely recognized that climate change and biodiversity are interconnected. Biodiversity is affected by climate change, with negative consequences for human well-being, but biodiversity, through the ecosystem services it supports, also makes an important contribution to both climate-change mitigation and adaptation. Consequently, conserving and sustainably managing biodiversity is critical to addressing climate change. More »

14 March 2016

The Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, applauds the Arctic Partnership announced Thursday by United States President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Washington, D.C.

12 December 2015

Message from the Executive Secretary: "The shift of ambition towards 1.5 degrees will make a big difference, particularly for the most vulnerable ecosystems such as coral reefs and polar ecosystems."

21 October 2015

Biodiversity and the ecosystem services it underpins can be the basis for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies as they can deliver benefits that will, according to the outcomes of a recent technical workshop on ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, increase the resilience of people to the impacts of climate change.

9 May 2016

Nominations for the NAP Expo 2016, from 11 to 15 July 2016, in Bonn, Germany

9 May 2016

Scoping meeting for the IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways