scholarly journals Post-2020 biodiversity targets need to embrace climate change

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (49) ◽  
pp. 30882-30891
Author(s):  
Almut Arneth ◽  
Yunne-Jai Shin ◽  
Paul Leadley ◽  
Carlo Rondinini ◽  
Elena Bukvareva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Change Mitigation

Recent assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) have highlighted the risks to humanity arising from the unsustainable use of natural resources. Thus far, land, freshwater, and ocean exploitation have been the chief causes of biodiversity loss. Climate change is projected to be a rapidly increasing additional driver for biodiversity loss. Since climate change and biodiversity loss impact human societies everywhere, bold solutions are required that integrate environmental and societal objectives. As yet, most existing international biodiversity targets have overlooked climate change impacts. At the same time, climate change mitigation measures themselves may harm biodiversity directly. The Convention on Biological Diversity’s post-2020 framework offers the important opportunity to address the interactions between climate change and biodiversity and revise biodiversity targets accordingly by better aligning these with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. We identify the considerable number of existing and proposed post-2020 biodiversity targets that risk being severely compromised due to climate change, even if other barriers to their achievement were removed. Our analysis suggests that the next set of biodiversity targets explicitly addresses climate change-related risks since many aspirational goals will not be feasible under even lower-end projections of future warming. Adopting more flexible and dynamic approaches to conservation, rather than static goals, would allow us to respond flexibly to changes in habitats, genetic resources, species composition, and ecosystem functioning and leverage biodiversity’s capacity to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

scholarly journals The place of a socio-cultural environment in climate change discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Recha
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Change Mitigation

The significance of climate change is reflected in global level efforts such as Conference of Parties and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reporting. The global level platform develops consensus on evidences and pathways to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Unfortunately, these efforts often lack social-cultural dynamics to climate change. This study adopted a desktop survey to establish the place of socio-cultural dynamics in climate change discourse. In this study, it is argued that socio-economic security and attributes, cultural-orientation and inter-group dimensions are key determinants to implementation of climate change programmes. To successfully design and implement climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, first address socioeconomic securities of communities, bring on board sub-national considerations and package climate change impacts as a threat to nationalism.

Gender, Forests and Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paloma Marcos Morezuelas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Payment Schemes ◽  
Gender Lens ◽  
Change Mitigation

As users of forest products and guardians of traditional knowledge, women have always been involved in forestry. Nevertheless, their access to forest resources and benefits and participation in forest management is limited compared to mens despite the fact that trees are more important to women, who depend on them for their families food security, income generation and cooking fuel. This guide aims to facilitate the incorporation of a gender lens in climate change mitigation and adaptation operations in forests, with special attention to those framed in REDD. This guide addresses four themes value chains, environmental payment schemes, firewood and biodiversity that relate directly to 1) how climate change impacts affect women in the forest and 2) how mitigation and adaptation measures affect womens access to resources and benefits distribution.

What can cities do to increase resilience?

2007 ◽  
Vol 365 (1860) ◽  
pp. 2731-2739 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Crichton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Change Mitigation

This paper examines climate change mitigation and adaptation from an insurance industry perspective, with particular reference to London and the USA. It illustrates how British insurers are increasingly shaping public policy and using new technology to manage the risks from climate change impacts and makes a plea for society to make more use of insurance expertise in future decision making. In particular, more dialogue is needed between architects, planners and insurers to adapt our buildings and cities for climate change impacts. The paper is an abbreviated and updated version of the paper presented by the author in Houston, Texas, in 2005.

The Climate Security Nexus

Geography ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Snorek ◽  
Daniel Abrahams
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Nobel Committee ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Change Mitigation

The progression of climate change impacts in the age of the Anthropocene will have dire consequences for our planet; yet, will it also bring about greater violence and conflict? The linking of climate change to violent conflict or the climate-security nexus (C-S nexus) was popularized in 2003 with the release of two security strategies from the Pentagon and the European Council. This idea gained momentum when, in 2007, the Nobel committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for their work at raising the world’s awareness of anthropogenic climate change. Scientists contributing to this dialogue took reference to the literature and theories of the environmental security debate, and much scholarship has ensued since. Although most empirical work has found no causal link between climate change and violent conflict, several quantitative studies have shown otherwise. A large majority of literature, however, focuses on the conditionalities of climate change on broader elements of human security and finds the proposed relationships to be neo-Malthusian and environmentally deterministic. The strength of this critique has resulted in wide disagreement of the validity of the C-S nexus—from those who recognize it as an important way to promote climate change mitigation to those that warn that such discourses serve an agenda for greater hegemony and militarized control of the Global South. These arguments, as well as their potential for policy response, are highlighted in this article through a body of literature that explains both how and why the C-S nexus is being discussed and the consequences to this and other securitization debates.

scholarly journals Climate change, equity and the Sustainable Development Goals: an urban perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Reckien ◽  
Felix Creutzig ◽  
Blanca Fernandez ◽  
Shuaib Lwasa ◽  
Marcela Tovar-Restrepo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Diverse Groups

Climate change is acknowledged as the largest threat to our societies in the coming decades, potentially affecting large and diverse groups of urban residents in this century of urbanization. As urban areas house highly diverse people with differing vulnerabilities, intensifying climate change is likely to shift the focus of discussions from a general urban perspective to who in cities will be affected by climate change, and how. This brings the urban equity question to the forefront. Here we assess how climate change events may amplify urban inequity. We find that heatwaves, but also flooding, landslides, and even mitigation and adaptation measures, affect specific population groups more than others. As underlying sensitivity factors we consistently identify socioeconomic status and gender. We synthesize the findings with regard to equity types – meaning outcome-based, process-oriented and context-related equity – and suggest solutions for avoiding increased equity and justice concerns as a result of climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation.

scholarly journals Climate change mitigation and nature conservation both require higher protected area targets

2020 ◽  
Vol 375 (1794) ◽  
pp. 20190121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Callum M. Roberts ◽  
Bethan C. O'Leary ◽  
Julie P. Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Terrestrial Habitats ◽  
Adaptation Policies ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Change Mitigation

Nations of the world have, to date, pursued nature protection and climate change mitigation and adaptation policies separately. Both efforts have failed to achieve the scale of action needed to halt biodiversity loss or mitigate climate change. We argue that success can be achieved by aligning targets for biodiversity protection with the habitat protection and restoration necessary to bring down greenhouse gas concentrations and promote natural and societal adaptation to climate change. Success, however, will need much higher targets for environmental protection than the present 10% of sea and 17% of land. A new target of 30% of the sea given high levels of protection from exploitation and harm by 2030 is under consideration and similar targets are being discussed for terrestrial habitats. We make the case here that these higher targets, if achieved, would make the transition to a warmer world slower and less damaging for nature and people. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions’.

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