Diversity at the landscape level — of ecosystems, species and genetic resources, and livelihood options — enhances ecosystem and human resilience to economic and climatic shocks.
Negotiators should:
- Support policies, institutional support, research and resource management that seek to maintain and enhance environmental and socio-economic diversity and avoid landscape or ecosystem simplification.
- Ensure these policies are reflected in countries’ National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs).
What do you think: Should (bio)diversity be a priority for negotiators – and which processes, institutions and platforms would be best placed to take on that goal?
