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M. R. Marselle et al. (eds.), Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate
Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02318-8_14
Chapter 14
Global Developments: Policy Support
for Linking Biodiversity, Health
and Climate Change
Horst Korn, Jutta Stadler, and Aletta Bonn
Abstract This chapter highlights key policy processes at the international level
dealing with the alignment of policies for the biodiversity-climate-health nexus.
Recent developments by UN Conventions and major international organisations,
such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Ramsar Convention and the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), together
with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Intergovernmental SciencePolicy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), are discussed.
Special attention is given to newly emerging integrative global policy processes and
partnerships between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the WHO, also in
the framework of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and avenues to
translate them into local policy through the global partnership ICLEI – Local
Governments for Sustainability. Conclusions are drawn to foster the joint implementation of policy goals.
Keywords Biodiversity-climate-health nexus · Science-policy interface · UN
conventions · CBD partnership · IPBES · SDG goals
Highlights
• Policy agendas of health promotion, climate change adaptation and biodiversity
conservation are starting to become aligned.
H. Korn (*) · J. Stadler
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Isle of Vilm, Putbus, Germany
e-mail: horst.korn@bfn.de; jutta.stadler@bfn.de
A. Bonn
Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ,
Leipzig, Germany
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig,
Leipzig, Germany
Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
e-mail: aletta.bonn@ufz.de
© The Author(s) 2019
M. R. Marselle et al. (eds.), Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate
Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02318-8_14
Chapter 14
Global Developments: Policy Support
for Linking Biodiversity, Health
and Climate Change
Horst Korn, Jutta Stadler, and Aletta Bonn
Abstract This chapter highlights key policy processes at the international level
dealing with the alignment of policies for the biodiversity-climate-health nexus.
Recent developments by UN Conventions and major international organisations,
such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Ramsar Convention and the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), together
with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Intergovernmental SciencePolicy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), are discussed.
Special attention is given to newly emerging integrative global policy processes and
partnerships between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the WHO, also in
the framework of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and avenues to
translate them into local policy through the global partnership ICLEI – Local
Governments for Sustainability. Conclusions are drawn to foster the joint implementation of policy goals.
Keywords Biodiversity-climate-health nexus · Science-policy interface · UN
conventions · CBD partnership · IPBES · SDG goals
Highlights
• Policy agendas of health promotion, climate change adaptation and biodiversity
conservation are starting to become aligned.
H. Korn (*) · J. Stadler
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Isle of Vilm, Putbus, Germany
e-mail: horst.korn@bfn.de; jutta.stadler@bfn.de
A. Bonn
Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ,
Leipzig, Germany
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig,
Leipzig, Germany
Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
e-mail: aletta.bonn@ufz.de