Good climate action is not always good for biodiversity

By considering climate action separately from nature conservation, climate solutions can sometimes worsen biodiversity, stress several experts who call for a systemic approach.

"Sometimes when we try to find a solution to a problem, we risk causing damage elsewhere," explains Anne Larigauderie, executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity, which will publish a major report in December on how to reconcile climate, biodiversity, access to water or food and health.

As early as 2021, a working group between IPBES and the IPCC, its climate counterparts within the UN, explained that separate assessments of climate and biodiversity risk “at worst […] leading to actions that inadvertently prevent one or both issues from being resolved. (More on rtbf.be)