IPCC/IPBES workshop launched
IPCC/IPBES workshop launched
Unprecedented changes in climate and biodiversity, driven by human activities, have combined and increasingly threaten nature, human lives, livelihoods and well-being around the world. Biodiversity loss and climate change are both driven by human economic activities and mutually reinforce each other. Neither will be successfully resolved unless both are tackled together. This is the message of a workshop report, to which Almut Arneth was invited as one of 50 biodiversity and climate change experts. The peer-reviewed workshop report is the product of a four-day virtual workshop between experts assembled by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (https://ipbes.net/) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (https://www.ipcc.ch/) – the first-ever collaboration between these two intergovernmental bodies. The report finds that previous policies have largely tackled biodiversity loss and climate change independently of each other, and that addressing the synergies between mitigating biodiversity loss and climate change, while considering their social impacts, offers the opportunity to maximize benefits and meet global development goals.
- Access the workshop report here: www.ipbes.net/BiodiversityClimateScience
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- https://www.sciencemediacenter.de/alle-angebote/press-briefing/details/news/wie-lassen-sich-der-kampf-gegen-den-klimawandel-und-der-erhalt-der-biodiversitaet-vereinbaren-erstmals-gemeinsame-analyse-von-weltklimarat-ipcc-und-weltbiodiversitaetsrat-ipbes/