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Excerpt from Preface:
Climate action has long been the main focus of global sustainability efforts. From a biodiversity point of view, frameworks to manage greenhouse gases need to do more than track emissions. They should, at least, avoid harming biodiversity and at best be proactive tools for sustaining the complex ecosystems that help us mitigate and adapt, by providing air purification, enriching and stabilizing soil, and regulating climate. This volume presents a compilation of practical and innovative methodologies designed to bridge the gap between carbon accounting and the multi-dimensional goals of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) —the global set of goals and targets adopted under the Convention on Biological Diversity to guide biodiversity action through 2030— and the Satoyama Initiative —a global initiative that promotes “societies in harmony with nature” by supporting socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes where people and biodiversity can thrive together.
In reviewing these technical documents from a biodiversity angle, the primary objective was to evaluate how effectively they address ecological targets while pursuing greenhouse gas reductions. The methodologies demonstrate that carbon mitigation can be a supportive partner to biodiversity conservation, especially when implemented through a landscape or seascape approach
that considers multiple users, multiple uses, and ecological connectivity.
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