Breaking Silos: Enhancing synergies across NDCs and NBSAPs

Tackling the ongoing climate and biodiversity crises requires concerted and coordinated efforts to decarbonize economies, reverse nature loss, adapt to climate change, ensure food security, and achieve Sustainable Development Goals. These efforts are inextricably linked and cannot be achieved independent of one another. However, international conventions addressing these crises have evolved and worked in silos. Political commitment and action at the highest level is therefore essential to synergize efforts that work towards the goals of these conventions. But the momentum is building with the Presidents of Conference of Parties of the three Rio Conventions calling for a coordinated approach at the international and national levels to tackle these crises holistically and with the Summit of the Future set to deliberate on a path forward to transition to more cooperative approaches to global governance in 2024.