Climate Change and Biodiversity

Voluntary guidelines for the design and effective implementation of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (SBSTTA/22/INF/1)

CBD Technical Series No. 89: The Lima Declaration on Biodiversity and Climate Change: Contributions from Science to Policy for Sustainable Development

CBD Technical Series No. 86: Managing ecosystems in the context of climate change mitigation: A review of current knowledge and recommendations to support ecosystem-based mitigation actions that look beyond terrestrial forests

CBD Technical Series No. 85: Synthesis report on experiences with ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

Key messages brochure

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

UNEP/CBD/COP/12/INF/29: Promoting Synergies in addressing biodiversity and climate change adaptation issues: linking national adaptation plans and national biodiversity strategies and action plans

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 »

15 November 2018

African Ministers of Environment together with partner organizations committed to an ambitious action agenda taking a coherent approach to addressing the interlinked challenges of biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change.

17 December 2018

Opportunities to provide inputs to the work of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

23 April 2018

Nominations for the Regional Dialogue on Integrating Climate Change and Biodiversity at the National Level in North, West and Central Africa, 18 to 22 June 2018 - Dakar, Senegal

9 October 2019, New York, United States of America

International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction 2019

11 November 2019 - 22 November 2019, TBD, Chile

2019 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 25) - Twenty fifth session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change