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Connecting Biodiversity and Climate Change
Connecting Biodiversity and Climate Change
Key Messages of the AHTEG Report
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The Secretariat has produced a number of documents about biodiversity and climate change adaptation and mitigation in the context of UNFCCC deliberations. These are available below, including a summary of
CBD events
at UNFCCC COP15. This page also links to
recent publications
, including those by the CBD.
Biodiversity and Climate Change Action
Biodiversity, Gender and Climate Change
Recent CBD scientific findings on biodiversity and climate change
(including ecosystem-based adaptation, REDD and ocean acidification)
Relevant Activities of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Biodiversity and Livelihoods
: REDD Benefits - German Development Cooperation (GTZ) and CBD Secretariat guide
Statements to UNFCCC SBSTA 31
:
item 3 Nairobi Work Programme
; and
item 5 REDD
Press Release
:
Ocean Acidification from CO2 Emissions Causes Substantial Irreversible Damage to Ocean Ecosystems
CBD Secretariat Activities at UNFCCC COP 15
Friday, 11 December
Connecting Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
: Presentation of the CBD Expert Group report (Technical Series 41), Friday, 11 December, Time: 1:00-2:30 pm, Room 3, Bella Center, Copenhagen,
More »
Connecting Biodiversity and Climate Change
: Key messages from the AHTEG report, presentation by Dr Guy Midgley, SANBI, South Africa
Convenient Solutions to an Inconvenient Truth: Ecosystem-based Approaches to Climate Change
. Report by the World Bank discussing the role of ecosystem-based adaptation in development.
Promoting Biodiversity Co-Benefits in REDD
- This OECD paper examines how biodiversity co-benefits in REDD can be enhanced, both at the design and implementation level.
Reports on relationship between carbon storage, biodiversity and ecosystem services
- UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
Sunday, 13 December
Forest Biodiversity and Climate Change
: Learning event in collaboration with UN-REDD Programme, GEF Secretariat and Conservation International at "Forest Day 3", on 13 December at the Radisson Falconer Hotel, Copenhagen.
More »
Recent Publications on Climate Change and Biodiversity
Connecting Biodiversity and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation – Report of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change (AHTEG).
CBD Technical Series No. 41
Key messages of the report from the AHTEG are available in UN languages.
More »
Review of the Literature on the Links between Biodiversity and Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation. Prepared by the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre for the AHTEG.
CBD Technical Series No. 42
Forest Resilience, Biodiversity, and Climate Change. A Synthesis of the Biodiversity/Resilience/Stability Relationship in Forest Ecosystems
CBD Technical Series No. 43
Scientific Synthesis of the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity
CBD Technical Series No. 46
More CBD Technical Series »
Other Key Publications
Natural Solutions
- protected areas, helping people to cope with climate change.
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Initiative
– building the economic case for the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity. A major international initiative to draw attention to the global economic benefits of biodiversity and to highlight the growing costs of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. Recent reports include:
Climate Issue Update September 2009
Responding to the Value of Nature
: Report for Policy Makers
Other key TEEB documents, including drafts of reports are available
here
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
- series of reports on climate change and biodiversity launched at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. These include:
Two summary reports on
Tanzania
and
Jiangxi Province, China
which provide detailed spatial analyses of the relationship between carbon storage, biodiversity and ecosystem services
Three posters outlining spatial analyses of the relationship between carbon storage, biodiversity and ecosystem services in
Tanzania
,
Jiangxi Province, China
and
Honduras
,
An
updated global carbon map
A report reviewing the
measures to promote co-benefits from REDD
Reviews of the recent scientific literature on climate change and biodiversity, CBD Technical Series 42;
2 page summary
;
full report
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