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Biodiversity and Climate Change: A CBD Contribution to the Copenhagen Climate Agreement

Montreal, 11 September 2009 – The 6,000 participants attending the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in May 2008, decided to establish an Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change as a contribution to the fifteen ...

Biodiversity and Climate Change: A CBD Contribution to the Copenhagen Climate Agreement.

Biodiversity and Climate Change: The role of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)

Worldwide, specific agricultural systems and landscapes have been created, shaped and maintained by generations of farmers and herders based on diverse natural resources, using locally adapted management practices. These systems have resulted in the maintenance and adaptation of globally signifi ...

Recommendation XVIII/10

Biodiversity and climate change

Recommendation IX/11

Biodiversity and climate change

Recommendation XIII/6

Biodiversity and climate change: options for mutually supportive actions addressing climate change within the three Rio conventions

Biodiversity and climate change: size matters, and it depends on the region

World temperatures have reached unprecedented levels in the last years and the consequences of climate change are clearly perceptible. Glaciers are melting, the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events is increasing… In silence, biodiversity is paying the price, and a significant propor ...

Biodiversity and ecosystem services benefits of climate change mitigation and adaptation projects

Climate change mitigation and adaptation projects can potentially deliver benefits for biodiversity and ecosystem services. However, in some instances, for example, where afforestation leads to the establishment of monocultures or the introduction of exogenous trees, climate projects may have ne ...

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.

Biodiversity eyed as tool vs climate crisis

BIODIVERSITY protection is a major tool against climate change, advocates said during the first episode of youth-led climate webcast Stories for Better Reality titled "Biodiversity and Climate Change: Anong Konek?"

Biodiversity: A Missing Link for Mitigating Climate Change - World Environment Day celebrated in Montreal

Montreal: 6 June 2008 –World Environment Day was celebrated in Montreal yesterday by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Montreal diplomatic community by the hoisting for the first time of the United Nations flag at the entrance to the Montreal World Trade Centre, w ...

Biodiversity: A Missing Link for Mitigating Climate Change - World Environment Day celebrated in Montreal.

Biodiversité et Climat : développer la connaissance pour accompagner la résilience

A 1,5°C par rapport à l’ère pré-industrielle, la biodiversité est déjà menacée. Il y a quelques jours, le GIEC (Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat) lançait une nouvelle alerte sur l’urgence d’agir pour réduire drastiquement nos émissions globales de gaz à effets de se ...

Biodviversity and Climate Justice

This side event will showcase the different food cuisines from rice, ranging from hors d’ vors, appetizers, main course and desserts that are so delicious and tempting that one cannot imagine living without rice. The different rice varieties and food cuisines will be exhibited to the negoti ...

Recommendation VI/7

Biological diversity and climate change, including cooperation with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Birds and insect species are heading north in the UK as climate warms

More than 50 species – including the purple heron, the southern emerald damselfly and the green-jawed tube web spider – have been on the move in the UK over the past decade as climate change takes hold.

Birds with bigger beaks and longer-legged shrews: Animals are evolving to cope with climate change

Animals are evolving quicker to cope with the warming climate — but where does that leave those that cannot adapt quick enough? A new study, published by Deakin University in Australia, found that birds, in particular, are developing larger beaks, legs and ears to better regulate their body temp ...

Bitcoin can push global warming above 2 degrees Celsius by 2033: Study

Implementing Bitcoin at similar rates at which other technologiesNSE 1.95 % have been incorporated could alone produce enough emissions to raise global temperatures by two degrees Celsius as soon as 2033, according to a study.

Bivalves reveal big picture of climate change

Climate change has always left its footprint on land and in the seas where bivalves such as mussels, scallops, oysters have lived for millions of years. Their limited mobility has been to their disadvantage resulting in most of them dying in the on-site whenever major unpleasant changes occurred ...

Blooming flowers, fledgling birds … the UK’s spring is early – and always will be

A blackbird feeding a fledged youngster in early January. Red campions flowering four months early. And the earliest recorded sighting of a rare beetle.

Blue Carbon

Blue carbon refers to the carbon sequestered and stored in coastal vegetated ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrass or tidal salt marshes. This carbon can build up over millenia, but is then be susceptible to oxidation and significant release into the atmosphere if habitats are degraded. Maintai ...

Blue solution to humanity’s “code red” crisis

The heat dome over Canada’s Pacific Northwest that killed hundreds of humans and “cooked” one billion sea creatures; Europe’s catastrophic floods; and the worst wildfires in almost a decade could become our new normal.

Bluer skies, less greenhouse gas. What happens after the pandemic?

Earlier this month, health care experts from across the United States gathered to address hundreds of journalists and policymakers by webinar. But their focus was not testing, nor vaccines, nor “herd immunity.” It was not even COVID-19, really. Instead, their focus was climate change.

Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission

(CNN)The British research submarine Boaty McBoatface has made an impressive debut in the scientific arena, discovering a significant link between Antarctic winds and rising sea temperatures on its maiden outing.

Bold action on climate change needed now we have declared emergency

Last week, Ireland became the second country in the world, after the UK, to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency.

Bonn Climate Change Conference (COP 23) - Twenty third session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

6 - 17 November 2017, Bonn, Germany

Bonn Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC)

1 - 11 June 2020, Bonn, Germany

Boreal warning: Climate change could make Canada's forest a carbon emitter

As the world's attention is focused on wildfires in the Amazon, an international group of researchers has issued a warning about fires caused by climate change and their impact on Canada's boreal forest.

Boris Johnson tells UN that Cop26 must be ‘turning point for humanity’

Cop26 must be a “turning point for humanity” in just 40 days’ time, Boris Johnson has urged in a call to arms to fellow global leaders ahead of the climate summit in Glasgow.

Brazil cancels another UN climate change event

RIO DE JANEIRO — After backing out of hosting the 2019 U.N. climate summit, Brazil has now canceled a United Nations climate change event that was to be held in August in the city of Salvador.

Brazil should stay in Paris climate agreement - future environment minister

Brazil will use common sense in dealing with the Paris agreement, and the country has so far been responsible in preserving its vegetation, Salles says

Breaking Boundaries review: Attenborough takes on climate change facts

For most of David Attenborough’s 70-odd years on television, the question of life and death has been framed in terms of predator versus prey. It is only relatively recently that his documentaries have started to address the danger of the climate crisis confronting us all.

Breeding and climate change: the final report of Life Forage4Climate project

Everyday we have signs of the climate that is changing: temperatures higher than the seasonal average, extreme events such as water bombs and heat waves and agriculture pays the consequences, with droughts alternating with storms and the spread of new diseases of plants and animals and alien spe ...

Brexit, climate change nothing to ‘wine’ about, say French growers

France is likely to remain the UK’s undisputed top wine supplier despite the challenges posed by Brexit, climate change and rising international competition. EURACTIV France reports.In 2020, British importers spent an amount of £733 million (€844 million) on wine from France, making the country ...

Bridging the Gaps Between Climate Action & Biodiversity Preservation

With the climate negotiations getting more and more intense in the light of ensuring meaningful achievements in the upcoming COP- 26 summit in Edinburgh, an event that is key to move forward the pathway towards a net zero future started in Paris, this year World Environment Day on June 5 assumes ...

Briefing Session: Nature-Based Solutions work stream of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/CST/TMo/88283 (2019-070)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, ABS Protocol National Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Briefing on the links between biodiversity and climate change leading up to the high level global climate change discussions on 24 September in New York

Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity invites all media to the CBD Secretariat for a briefing on the links between biodiversity and climate change leading up to the high level global climate change discussions on 24 September in New York

Britain's 10 hottest years all occurred since 2002: Met Office

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 2002, in a sign of the effects of climate change, a report by the UK Met Office published on Wednesday shows.

British Columbia at the epicentre of climate change-fuelled weather extremes

From dangerous heat and destructive wildfires to record breaking rainfall and catastrophic flooding, parts of British Columbia, Canada have been at the epicentre of two top-end weather extremes within the space of a few months.

British Red Cross 150th anniversary essays: the case for change in a time of crisis

The British Red Cross has published a collection of essays to mark its 150th anniversary, including one on climate by Nisreen Elsaim,Chair of UN Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, which stresses that all countries must have an equal opportunity to influence climate negot ...

British chips shrink by an inch as climate change slashes potato yields

Britain’s chips are under threat as climate change triggers unpredictable weather and brings sweeping changes to the nation’s fruit and vegetable growers.

Browne to argue for climate justice at Biden summit of world leaders

Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne intends to make “a robust contribution on behalf of all Caricom countries” when he participates in the Summit Meeting on Climate organised by US President, Joseph Biden, he said in a statement on Monday.

Building a climate-resilient future - A new EU Strategy on Αdaptation to Climate Change

The European Commission adopted today a new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change, setting out the pathway to prepare for the unavoidable impacts of climate change. While the EU does everything within its power to mitigate climate change, domestically and internationally, we must also get ...

Burgundy wine grapes suggest global warming has accelerated in last 30 years

Aug. 29 (UPI) -- According to a new survey of Burgundy wine grape harvests in France, picking has begun an average of 13 days earlier over the last 30 years than during the previous 650 days.

Burning Forests for Rain, and Other Climate Catastrophes

NAIROBI, Aug 9 2019 (IPS) - The villagers living on the foothills of Mount Kenya have a belief: If they burn the forest, the rains will come.

Bushfires, ash rain, dust storms and flash floods: two weeks in apocalyptic Australia

In Australia this summer, talking about the weather inevitably leads to talking about the apocalypse.“When’s the plague of locusts going to arrive?” jokes one Sydney resident after hearing reports that her city is to receive another storm of giant hailstones on Friday afternoon, just a day after ...

Butterfly survival reduced by warmer and longer autumns

Pupae of the green-veined white butterfly use more energy if autumn is long and warm, which leaves them too weak to emerge as butterflies in spring - and the results might apply to other butterfly species too.

Butterfly temperature research 'could boost survival chances'

Thousands of wild butterflies have had their temperatures taken by researchers who hope the results could help safeguard the species' future.

By ditching landmark climate legislation, America makes the world unsafe

The rest of the world needs to start treating the US as what it is: a dangerous country that needs to be reined in.

CANCELLED: Nominations for the NAP Expo 2017, from 11 to 13 April 2017, in Bonn, Germany

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/SK/AC/86299 (2017-023)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points