Briefing On Opportunities For Climate-Biodiversity Synergies Across International Agendas

This briefing provides advice on the main opportunities available to raise the profile of and make progress on enhancing climate and biodiversity synergies by linking both international agendas, as part of the negotiation space offered at the upcoming 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cali, Colombia, and on the way to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and COP30 in Belém do Pará, Brazil.

To promote climate-biodiversity synergies, it is recommended for Parties at COP16 to:

1. Ensure the development of additional GBF indicators for Targets 8 and 19(e)
2. Encourage coherence between revised NBSAPs and next NDCs
3. Encourage greater collaboration between IPBES and IPCC
4. Support the establishment of a joint work program between the three Rio Conventions
5. Formalize the role of CBD Action Agenda Champions