Climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation are increasingly recognised as interconnected global crises. Yet international governance frameworks and implementation processes often remain fragmented. The BioClime support project seeks to address this gap by strengthening synergies between the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Paris Agreement under the UNFCCC, and related international processes.
Commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN) and implemented through the GIZ, BioClime supports both international negotiations and practical implementation processes in partner countries including Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, and Thailand. Ecologic Institute contributes to the project as part of a consortium led by adelphi together with GeoMedia.
The project focuses on five areas of action:
- supporting implementation instruments under the CBD;
- advising on UNFCCC processes and climate negotiations;
- strengthening biodiversity-climate synergies and ecosystem-based adaptation;
- supporting international partnerships and knowledge networks; and
- advancing work on forest-related climate finance and deforestation-free supply chains.
Through policy advice, technical analyses, dialogue formats, workshops, and communication products, BioClime seeks to strengthen integrated governance approaches that can simultaneously advance climate mitigation, adaptation, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable development.
Ecologic’s role in BioClime
Ecologic Institute contributes expertise particularly on the biodiversity-climate nexus, international climate negotiations, ecosystem restoration, governance of nature-based solutions, and climate adaptation. In practice, this ranges from the development of synthesis reports and policy analyses on, for example, cooperation between the Rio Conventions under the UNFCCC negotiations process, to supporting the development of a “Rio Conventions Pocket Guide” for negotiators and policymakers working across the climate, biodiversity, and desertification conventions, to drafting an options paper on integrating Rio Convention synergies into existing UNFCCC negotiation tracks and agenda items. The team’s broad thematic expertise, combined with extensive experience in international climate negotiations and environmental governance, positions Ecologic Institute as a key partner for a growing range of strategic and technically complex assignments throughout the course of the project.
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