Biodiversité

Islands at the frontline of climate change - from impacts to solutions

By Carole Martinez, of IUCN’s Global Marine Programme, reporting from the climate change conference (COP21) in Paris.

Investir dans la protection et la restauration des écosystèmes: une solution efficace et durable pour lutter contre les dérèglements climatiques.
A l’occasion de la conférence Paris Climat 2015, le partenariat France-UICN et 12 acteurs majeurs de la protection de la nature appellent à promouvoir le rôle des écosystèmes naturels dans la lutte contre les dérèglements climatiques.

A quick walk around the venue of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris leaves the impression that “solutions based in nature” are definitely in the focus of the negotiations. Not to mention the prominent display of a veritable Noah’s Ark of life-size cut-outs of the world’s wildlife. This is vastly different from the way it used to be a few years ago, when there were scant references to the role of nature or ecosystems in either mitigation or adaptation discussions. It's a credit to the efforts of many of you involved in nature conservation and the interface with climate change to have pushed the debate to encompass nature-based solutions in many forms.