WCC 2020 Res 114 - Activity Report

WCPA supported the development of the IUCN Inter-
Commission Task Force on Biodiversity and Climate to
promote greater and more visible positioning of IUCN in the
biodiversity-climate space, building on the ongoing work of the
Commissions, and highlighting existing knowledge products
and guidance. As part of this effort, WCPA led the
development of a statement by the chairs of all seven IUCN
Commissions on the importance of integrating solutions to
the biodiversity and climate crises, the first time that all
IUCN Commissions have issued such a joint call to action.

WCPA, along with the Climate Crisis Commission, the
Climate Action Network’s Ecosystems Working Group, and
World Wildlife Fund, achieved important firsts for nature in
the COP28 decision on the Global Stocktake.

WCPA collaborated with the IUCN Climate Crisis Commission
on the production of a technical brief, Connecting the Dots:
Achieving synergistic action for global biodiversity and climate
goals utilising the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity
Framework, to support COP28 decisions on protected
areas and climate change. WCPA prepared two other briefs
– Role of PAs in climate change mitigation and biodiversity
conservation, and Primary Forests, Ecosystem Integrity
and Climate Change – to focus attention at COP28 on the
importance of PCAs in the climate-biodiversity nexus.