Decision COP XI/21
Biodiversity and climate change: integrating biodiversity considerations into climate change related activities
3.Invites Parties, other Governments, relevant organizations, and indigenous and local communities, when carrying out work on biodiversity and climate change, to consider the proposals on overcoming obstacles that are contained in document UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/16/9;
4.Welcomes the collaboration among the secretariats of the Rio conventions, the Global Environment Facility and other organizations in the convening of the Rio Conventions Pavilion at meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Rio conventions and at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20);
5.Encourages Parties, other Governments and relevant organizations to further mobilize resources, in accordance with Article 20 of the Convention, the strategy for resource mobilization in line with decisions IX/11, X/3 and XI/4, and aware of the Rio Principles, in order to fill biodiversity and ecosystem services data gaps in the context of climate change, and to undertake research studies at spatial scales from local scales to larger landscapes;
(e)Support the strengthening of inventorying and monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem services at appropriate scales in order to evaluate the threats and likely impacts of climate change and both positive and negative impacts of climate change mitigation and adaptation on biodiversity and ecosystem services;
(a)Identify relevant workshops and activities within the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change and countries’ national adaptation plans under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and disseminate such information through the clearing-house mechanism of the Convention and by other means with a view to enhancing knowledge sharing on ecosystem based approaches; and
8.Also requests the Executive Secretary to promote educational activities on synergies among climate change, biodiversity and desertification, and also their links to livelihoods and development, through the programme of work on communication, education and public awareness linked with Article 6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and public awareness campaigns;
- Body
- Conference of the Parties (COP)
- Meeting
- COP-118 - 19 October, 2012Hyderabad, India
- Decision document
- Biodiversity and climate change: integrating biodiversity considerations into climate change related activities
- Documents
- UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/16/9
- Related decisions