At COP30 in Belém, global delegates spotlighted the urgent need for integrated policies that tackle both climate change and biodiversity loss — breaking down long-standing silos between climate, land and nature agendas.
In a side event titled “From Trade-offs to Synergies: Aligning Climate and Biodiversity Policies,” participants — including representatives from WWF International, Greenpeace International and other civil-society groups — emphasized that science, nature-based solutions (NbS), and cooperation across international frameworks are essential to unlock the double-benefit of reducing emissions and conserving ecosystems.
Speakers called for coherent national planning, aligned funding streams, and institutional reforms so that mitigation, adaptation, biodiversity protection and land restoration reinforce each other — rather than operating in parallel.
Event organisers and several nations urged embedding a “synergies agenda” into the core COP30 outcomes, with mechanisms to streamline reporting and financing across the major environmental conventions (climate, biodiversity, land) — aiming to make 2025 a turning point for integrated climate-nature action.
