Status of initiatives linking biodiversity and climate change in the International Year of Biodiversity

UNEP/CBD/COP/Bur/2010/2/2:

This note provides an update on the status of ongoing initiatives linking biodiversity and climate change. It states that climate change adaptation planning, disaster risk reduction and development planning also contain links to biodiversity and/or ecosystem services and considers the integration of ecosystem-based approaches in the development of climate change adaptation planning as an option for developing countries to reduce their climate risk. It also advocates for climate-proofing infrastructure projects, such as transport and irrigation systems, improved disaster monitoring and management and better land-use planning.

Overall, this document includes an analysis of the implications for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) of the outcome of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) held in Copenhagen, December 2009.