Enhancing climate change mitigation in protected areas

This report covers both terrestrial and marine protected and conserved areas (PCAs). The audience is practitioners and policymakers who seek background information on the role of PCAs in climate change mitigation to:
- develop policies that enhance biodiversity and climate change simultaneously;
- quantify the importance of PCAs as a mechanism to reduce GHG emissions in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) to the Paris Agreement;
- include the role of PCAs in climate change mitigation in National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) required by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD); and
- quantify the climate change mitigation role of PCAs in funding applications.