Activity 4: Incorporate biodiversity and climatic interactions in programmes and policies
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Component 1: Incorporate climatic factors into national action programmes
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Consider climatic factors for incorporation into national action programmes for desertification: UNCCD Art. 15
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Take necessary measures to include important elements to combat desertification into national development strategies: UNCCD Decision4/COP.7, 2 SEE COMMENTARY 1
Component 2: Incorporate climate change and biodiversity objectives in relevant plans
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Include relevant actions related to climate change impacts and adaptation in the Agreement's Action Plan: AEWA Resolution 3.17
- More fully integrate climate change objectives in key areas of national sustainable development strategies such as biodiversity: UNFCCC Decision 1/CP.8 (c)
- Integrate the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity into relevant sectoral or cross-sectoral plans, programmes and policies: CBD Article 6(b)
- Integrate biodiversity considerations into all relevant national policies, programmes and plans in response to climate change, taking into account the maintenance and restoration of the resilience of ecosystems which are essential for sustaining the delivery of their goods and services: CBD Decision VIII/30, 1
- Implement the programme of work primarily through its incorporation into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, and mainstream it into national sustainable development strategies: CBD Decision VIII/1, 3 and CBD Decision VIII/1, Annex (programme of work on island biodiversity) SEE COMMENTARY 2
- Mainstream the management of the risks of natural disasters and extreme events to island biodiversity and communities into the national planning process: CBD Decision VIII/1, 3 and CBD Decision VIII/1, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 3
- Strengthen implementation of relevant sectoral and cross-sectoral plans and programmes in order to conserve dry and sub-humid lands ecosystem goods and services, and to respond to the threats to the biodiversity of dry and sub-humid lands, taking into account the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: CBD Decision VIII/2, 6
- Integrate actions pertaining to climate change in risk preparedness policies and action plans: World Heritage Decision 31 COM 7.1, 7 SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Ensure that risk management components, with identified properties, are integrated within management plans for World Heritage properties: World Heritage Decision 31 COM 7.2, 4 and WHC-07/31,COM/7.2 (revised Strategy for Risk Reduction at World Heritage Properties) SEE COMMENTARY 5
- Integrate climate change into any new or existing regional thematic management plans, programmes and events: World Heritage Decision 30 COM 7.1, 8 and WHC-06/30.COM/7.1 (Strategy to assist States Parties to implement appropriate management responses) SEE COMMENTARY 6
- Conduct climate change vulnerability analysis, risk assessment, adaptation, and develop appropriate management plans: World Heritage Decision 30 COM 7.1, 8 and WHC-06/30.COM/7.1 (Strategy to assist States Parties to implement appropriate management responses) SEE COMMENTARY 7
- Consider climate change when developing World Heritage nominations – in order to achieve better resistance and resilience to climate change impacts: World Heritage Decision 30 COM 7.1, 8 and WHC-06/30.COM/7.1 (Strategy to assist States Parties to implement appropriate management responses) SEE COMMENTARY 8
- Give more consideration to the impacts of disasters on natural heritage when designing strategic goals and plans: WHC Decision 30 COM 7.2, 5
- Include consideration for natural heritage within integrated multi-sectoral strategies for risk reduction at regional, national and local levels, by involving qualified heritage expertise and institutions in the planning and implementation stages: World Heritage Decision 30 COM 7.2, 3 and WHC-06/30. COM/7.2 (Strategy for Reducing Risks from Disasters at World Heritage properties) SEE COMMENTARY 9
- Include relevant actions related to climate change impacts and adaptation in the Agreement's Action Plan: AEWA Resolution 3.17
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Integrate migratory species into relevant sectors by coordinating national positions among different conventions and other international fora: CMS Resolution 8.11, 1 SEE COMMENTARY 10
Component 3: Consider climate change in protected areas
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Consider climate change in the establishment and management of marine and coastal protected areas: CBD Decision VII/5, 5 and CBD Decision VII/5, Annex I (elaborated programme of work on marine and coastal biological diversity) SEE COMMENTARY 11
Component 4: Consider climate change in planning and managing wetlands
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Consider the influence of climate change on the ecological features of wetlands in management planning for wetlands: Ramsar Resolution VIII.14, 9 and Ramsar Resolution VIII.14, Annex (New Guidelines for management planning for Ramsar sites and other wetlands) SEE COMMENTARY 12
- Select sites for inclusion in the Ramsar List that have communities that can no longer develop under contemporary conditions because of climate change: Ramsar Resolution VII.11, 13 and Ramsar Resolution VII.11, Annex (Strategic Framework and guidelines for the future development of the List of Wetlands of International Importance of the Convention on Wetlands) SEE COMMENTARY 13
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Develop national strategies, plans or programmes for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity or adapt existing ones: CBD Article 6(a)
- Ensure that the functions and values of wetlands are recognized and incorporated into planning decisions in the coastal zone: Ramsar Resolution VIII.4, 13 and Ramsar Resolution VIII.4, Annex (Principles and guidelines for incorporating wetland issues into Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)) SEE COMMENTARY 14
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