Highlights
Climate change and biodiversity are both recognized as crucial priorities for global action. There is a strong political effort to enhance synergies and minimize trade-offs between these two agendas. This requires bridging the science¨Cpolicy gap by leveraging existing institutional infrastructure and governance mechanisms. It has the potential to deliver multiple benefits for climate mitigation and adaptation, ecological security and achieving the SDGs.
Recommendations:
- Foster evidence and science-based policymaking at the national level.
- Promote integrative and adaptive approaches that can reduce trade-offs.
- Generate synergy indicators and integrate them into governance and financing mechanisms.
- Create a safe-for-biodiversity carbon marketplace that goes beyond the safeguard approach.
