| Autor: |
Young, Virginia, Dooley, Kate, Mackey, Brendan, Keith, Heather, Gonda, Catalina, Kormos, Cyril, Keto, Aila, Kun, Zoltan |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
| DOI: |
10.25904/1912/4822 |
| Popis: |
We recommend that both the CBD and UNFCCC SBSTA’s implement a joint work programme to fully operationalise the ecosystem provisions of the Paris Agreement to support and guide ecosystem-based and nature- based synergistic action in National Biodiversity Strategies & Action Plans (NBSAPs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). We recommend that a joint CBD/UNFCCC SBSTA work programme: • Explore and articulate the ways in which the biodiversity and climate crises (and solutions) amplify each other; • Explain why protection is the priority and restoration is secondary; • Explain the functional dependencies and linkages between biological diversity, ecosystem integrity and effective climate mitigation and adaptation; and • Promote actions that buffer and reconnect existing biodiverse and carbon dense natural ecosystems – such as support for conservation management of Indigenous Territories and Connectivity Conservation. 2. We recommend that the new ecosystem accounting framework developed by the UN Statistical Commission (UNSEEA-EA) be integrated under both CBD and UNFCCC reporting to reveal the synergistic benefits, including economic benefits, from protecting and restoring carbon-dense and species-rich ecosystems. 3. We also recommend that the CBD: • Share its knowledge and expertise with the UNFCCC and promote the benefits for climate mitigation of encouraging the protection, improved conservation management and regeneration of Earth’s high integrity, carbon dense ecosystems like primary forests in both NBSAPs and NDC’s; and • Acknowledge its responsibility to guide low risk, long lived and synergistic climate and biodiversity action in natural ecosystems. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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