POLICY BRIEF ocean-climate.org - Swimming the talk: How to strengthen synergies

In 2012, the Future We Want, the outcome document of the Synergies among the Climate and Biodiversity Rio+20 Conference called for “promot[ing] policy Conventions have been recognised from the coherence at all relevant levels [...] and enhanc[ing] beginning, as interlinkages between climate and coordination and cooperation among Multilateral biodiversity were enshrined in both the UNFCCC and Envir. [...] The Expert group covers a range of issues to build the resilience of the ocean, coastal areas and ecosystems10 - from coastal ecosystem restoration to better financing marine and coastal nature-based solutions - which are of important relevance to the work of the CBD and could be shared across the Conventions through facilitated communication streams under the SBST(T)As. [...] The Secretariats are mandated to support the global response to the threat of climate change and biodiversity loss, which requires mutual support and collaborative action, beyond the scope of the Joint Liaison Group. [...] The absence of the US from the CBD since 1992 has largely been due to pressures from Big Pharma’s unwillingness to share with developing countries the benefits from the exploitation of genetic resources, but now is the time when the Biden Administration wants to stand and be perceived as an ocean champion (for example, by calling for the conclusion of the on-going negotiations on Biodiversity Beyo. [...] By the same token, it would also be in the interest of the US to join the rest of the international community and ratify the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) of 1982 before its fortieth anniversary next year.