Sub-regional workshop for anglophone Africa on the integration of climate change and ecosystem-based adaptation in national biodiversity planning processes

Topics

Impacts and vulnerability

• Projected impacts and vulnerability, on biodiversity, ecosystems and biodiversity-based livelihoods, in the region
• Projected impacts and vulnerability in marine and coastal areas
• Ways and means to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on biodiversity

Defining ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation

• The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and climate‑change mitigation and adaptation, and response measures
• Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
• Results of the technical workshop on ecosystem-based approaches for adaptation to climate change under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
• Examples from the region

Rationale for linking ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation and implementation of the CBD

• Multiple benefits from ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation considering biodiversity co-benefits
• Multiple benefits from biodiversity conservation and sustainable use – considering adaptation co-benefits
• Linking ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation to integrated marine and coastal zone management
• Achieving efficiencies – financing

Entry points for mainstreaming ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation within national biodiversity strategy and action plans (NBSAPs)

• NBSAP development process, national target setting and implementation
• Climate proofing CBD implementation
• Marine and coastal zone management

Key technical and policy issues

• Assessing and managing tradeoffs – balancing ecosystem services for adaptation with biodiversity conservation and sustainable use
• Engaging stakeholders
• Gender mainstreaming, ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation and the CBD
• Ocean acidification – managing a global threat at the local level