napgn-en-2022-2021-2022-progress-report

Promoting Synergies Between Climate Change
Adaptation and Biodiversity Through the NAP
and National Biodiversity Strategy and Action
Plan (NBSAP) Processes
Partners: UNFCCC Nairobi Work Programme and the Least
Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG), IISD, NAP Global
Network, GIZ, Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Stockholm Resilience
Centre.
Countries around the world are grappling with two highly
interlinked environmental crises: climate change and biodiversity
loss. Exploring and building synergies between national
biodiversity and climate adaptation strategies will be pivotal to
ensuring that related actions become mutually reinforcing and
are not undermining each other. This technical brief reviews
the interconnections between biodiversity and climate change
adaptation and explores the potential to foster synergies between
the processes to formulate and implement NAPs and National
Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans.
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“The evolution in the framing of gender
issues, with a more nuanced and
intersectional perspective, shows that
the adaptation and gender community
is learning and adjusting as we go
and that this learning is being picked
up by national decision-makers and
stakeholders in NAP processes.”
Gender-Responsive NAP Processes:
Progress and promising examples
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