Optimizing climate mitigation and adaptation benefits from synergistic climate and biodiversity action

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09/10/2025
14:00 - 14:45
IUCN Commissions Knowledge Hub
Exhibition
Exhibitor event
Scaling Up Resilient Conservation Action

Why attend

Coherence among the Rio Conventions requires joint guidance to conserve and restore ecosystem carbon reservoirs, enhance ecosystem stability, and reduce emission risks, while strengthening understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem integrity and their role in climate policy and market and non-market mechanisms to deliver robust synergies.

Session Description

Achieving policy coherence between the RIO Conventions through synergistic action requires joint work to develop guidance on priority actions to retain and recover ecosystem carbon reservoirs and improve the stability of ecosystems to reduce the risks of emissions from terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Understanding the function of biodiversity and ecosystem integrity and their relevance for climate policy and market and non-market mechanisms for achieving robust synergies, needs to be strengthened.
Organised by
Species Survival Commission
Partners
World Commission on Protected Areas
Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland Australia

Speaker

Speaker Vanessa MORALES
Vanessa MORALES

Executive officer, IUCN Climate Crisis Commission 2022-2025

Speaker Cyril KORMOS
Cyril KORMOS

Executive Director, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas 2021-2025

Speaker Virginia YOUNG
Virginia YOUNG

Senior Research Fellow, Oceania Regional Committee of IUCN Members

Moderator

Speaker Brendan MACKEY
Brendan MACKEY

Professor and Director, Climate Action Beacon, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas 2021-2025

Speaker Vanessa MORALES
Vanessa MORALES

Executive officer, IUCN Climate Crisis Commission 2022-2025