COP 29 | Breaking Siloes Across the Climate-Biodiversity Nexus: Enhancing synergies between NDC, NAP and NBSAP
This COP 29 side event will focus on discussing practical recommendations on how national-level policy-makers could advance synergistic, just, and gender-responsive actions on climate and nature at this critical juncture of the NDC and NBSAP updates, as well as the NAP assessment.
About the event
In the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) processes, 2024 and 2025 represent a critical juncture where countries will submit their updated national biodiversity strategy and action plans (NBSAPs) and nationally determined contributions (NDCs), aligned with the new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the outcome of the first Global Stocktake, respectively. Countries will also undertake an assessment of the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans (NAPs) at COP 29.
In collaboration with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) has published a new checklist for national policy-makers, “Effectively Delivering on Climate and Nature: NDCs, NAPs and NBSAPs synergies", providing practical recommendations on how national-level policy-makers could advance synergistic, just, and gender-responsive actions on climate and nature. It also illustrates potential opportunities and interactions between the different policy instruments during the development or update of their NDC, NAP, and NBSAP, in order to enhance synergies and co-benefits.
This session will build on this new knowledge product and provide an interactive discussion forum for national-level policy-makers to strengthen and support national capacity for synergistic approaches to climate and biodiversity actions. The discussions will feed into future iterations of the checklist and support the development of a toolkit for enhancing synergies.
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