• CBD homepage

• Cross cutting issues: Climate change and biological diversity
• Thematic database: Climate change adaptation   
• International Biodiversity Day: Biodiversity & climate change
• Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Biodiversity and Climate Change 
  • Documents for the 2nd meeting, Helsinki, 18-22 April 2009
    Agenda included risks to biodiversity from climate change and related adaptation responses; benefits of biodiversity for enhancing adaptation options under climate change; analysis of the value of integrating biodiversity within climate change adaptation.
    Of a number of documents produced for the meeting, a particularly helpful analysis comes from the World Conservation Monitoring Center: The linkages between biodiversity and climate change adaptation: A review of the recent scientific literature . 
  • Documents for the 1st meeting, London, 17-21 November 2008
    Background on the AHTEG’s mission can be found in a recently completedonline dialoguethat took place from 13-17 October 2008.  
  • Draft findings focus on the AHTEG’s charge to “provide biodiversity related information to the UNFCCC through the provision of scientific and technical advice and assessment on the integration of the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity into climate change mitigation and adaptation activities.” 
  • Note: this is the CBD’s 3rd AHTEG related to climate change and biodiversity: 
    • In 2003, an AHTEG on Biological Diversity and Climate Change produced the reportInterlinkages Between Biological Diversity and Climate Change.  
    • In 2006, an AHTEG on Biological Diversity and Adaptation to Climate Change produced a report on Guidance for Promoting Synergy among Activities Addressing Biological Diversity, Desertification, Land Degradation and Climate Change

Adaptation Partnership

• http://www.adaptationpartnership.org/
• The goal of the partnership is to encourage effective adaptation by serving as an interim platform to catalyze action and foster communication among the various institutions and actors engaged in the effort to scale up adaptation and resilience around the world.

UN Food & Agricultural Organizaiton (FAO)

• FAO homepage
• Collaborative Partnership on Forests Forests and Climate change

UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

• World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP): Climate change & biodiversity 

 

 

 

 

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