Resources

Relevant Publications

• Technical Series No. 10 – Interlinkages between Biological Diversity and Climate Change - Advice on the integration of biodiversity considerations into the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol (2003)
• Technical Series No. 25 - Guidance for Promoting Synergy among Activities Addressing Biological Diversity, Desertification, Land Degradation and Climate Change (2006)
• Technical Series No. 41 - Connecting Biodiversity and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Report of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change (2009)
• The Key Messages of the Report of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change are available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Japanese.
• Technical Series No. 42 - Review of the Literature on the Links between Biodiversity and Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation (2009)
• Technical Series No. 43 - Forest Resilience, Biodiversity, and Climate Change. A synthesis of the biodiversity/resilience/stability relationship in forest ecosystems (2009)
• Technical Series No. 45 - Scientific Synthesis of the Impacts of Ocean Fertilization on Marine Biodiversity (2009)
• Technical Series No. 46 - Scientific Synthesis of the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity (2009)
• Technical Series No. 66 - Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Technical and Regulatory Matters (2012)
• Technical Series No. 84 - Update on climate geoengineering in relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Potential impacts and regulatory framework (2016)
• Technical Series No. 85 - Synthesis report on experiences with ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (2016)
• Technical Series No. 85 - Technical Series No. 85: Main findings and key messages (2016)
• 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 (2016)
• Technical Series No. 93 - Voluntary guidelines for the design and effective implementation of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and supplementary information (2019)
• Primer for policymakers and voluntary guidelines - Part 1 and 2 of CBD Technical Series No.93
• Outreach into sectors: Integrating ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction - Part 3 of CBD Technical Series No.93
• Individual sectoral briefs from Part 3 of CBD Technical Series No. 93:
  • Development planning and public finance
  • Spatial planning in land- and seascapes
  • Agriculture
  • Humanitarian
  • Infrastructure
  • Forestry
  • Water

Other

• Promoting synergies between climate change adaptation and biodiversity through the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan (NBSAP) processes. UNFCCC, CBD, IISD, GIZ, UNEP and SwedBio (2022)
• Relationships between the Aichi Targets and Land-Based Climate Mitigation
• Report and key messages from the Workshop on Biodiversity and Climate Change: Integrated Science for Coherent Policy, held on 18 October 2018 - Paris, France, organized by the CBD Secretariat in cooperation with the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• CBD/SBSTTA/23/3 and CBD/SBSTTA/23/INF/1: Review of new scientific and technical information on biodiversity and climate change and potential implications for the work of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Brochures

• 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
• Protecting biodiversity and ecosystems helps mitigate climate change: The contribution of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets to land-based climate mitigation (English) (French) (English with references)
• Biodiversity and ecosystem services: providing solutions for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction - Key messages from the technical workshop on ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 28 September to 2 October 2015.

Rio Conventions Joint Publications

• The Rio Conventions - Action on Adaptation
• The Rio Conventions - Action on Forests
• The Rio Conventions - Action on Gender

Databases

The UNFCCC Local Coping Strategies Database section on natural resource management