The Nordic Council is arranging the event Tackling the dual relationship between climate change and biodiversity – Can two pressing issues be addressed properly at the same time? on 16 November. Marton Leander Vølstad, Adviser at Nordic Energy Research, is panel member at the event.
Climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the most pressing issues of the Anthropocene. The two issues are closely related, and both are negatively affected by human activity. Resolving climate change requires a resolution to biodiversity loss, and vice versa. This interactive relationship appears not to have been properly recognised according to a recent report from the IPBES-IPCC workshop. In practice, they are largely addressed in their own domains. The report concludes that ignoring the relationship between climate change and biodiversity loss is causing non-optimal solutions for both climate change mitigation and adaption, and for biodiversity protection.
Time and place
On 16 November at 15.15–16.00 (CET), the Biodiversity Day of COP27, the event Tackling the dual relationship between climate change and biodiversity – Can two pressing issues be addressed properly at the same time? takes place at the Nordic Pavillion. Marton Leander Vølstad will discuss the question “How do we progress from science to policy making and action where the two issues are integrated?” together will other panelists.
More information and link to livestream here.
Speakers
- Basile van Havre, Co-chair of the CBD Working Group on post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
- Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, CEO of Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- Aled Dilwyn Fisher, The Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature/Friends of the Earth Norway
- Jens Nielsen, CEO World Climate Foundation
- Marianne Sivertsen Næss, MP Norway (TBC)
- Marton Leander Vølstad, Coordinator of Energy and Environment Programme, Nordic Energy Research
- Audur Önnu Magnúsdóttir, Secretary General, Landvernd, Icelandic Environment Association