Report of the Eleventh Global Biodiversity Forum: Exploring Synergy between the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity

Abstract

Biodiversity supplies goods and services to human populations, it protects and regulates lifesustaining resources such as water, air, soil and climate, and it supports important species interrelationships. For these reasons, humans have an obligation to conserve the biological diversity that is supplied by the earth. In the past, international obligations made toward conserving biodiversity had been addressed in isolation to other environmental agreements. This has lead to fragmentation in the international environmental agenda. The Eleventh Global Biodiversity Forum (GBF) attempted to create a link between the conservation of biodiversity and one of the most recent and notorious environmental issues ? climate change.