Biodiversity and Climate Change
Linkages at International, National and Local Levels

This insightful book deals with the complexity of linking biodiversity with climate change. It combines perspectives from international, national and local case studies, and also addresses this question using a thematic approach.

The book focuses on a number of key topics and examples, including: ecosystem services, human rights, MEA clustering, equity in ABS and REDD, forestation and deforestation, biosecurity, protected areas, mountain biodiversity, the Amazon rainforest, agricultural policy in the EU and patent licensing.

Clearly demonstrating linkages between biodiversity law and climate change law and stimulating new ideas for future research, this book will be a valuable reference tool for academics, researchers, students and policy-makers.

Introduction

Part I: National and local experiences
- 1. Bureaucratic Rhetoric of Climate Change in Nigeria: International Aspiration versus Local Realities
- 2. Combating Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss in a ‘Hot Spot’ Mega-diversity Country
- 3. Does the Concept of Ecosystem Services Promote Synergies between European Strategies for Climate Change and Biodiversity?
- 4. Impacts of Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Population on Sustainable Development in Ethiopia
- 5. Climate Change, Human Rights and the Darfur Crisis

Part II: International and transboundary approaches
- 6. The Clustering of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Can the Clustering of the Chemicals-related Conventions be Applied to the Biodiversity and Climate Change Conventions?
- 7. Retreading Negotiations on Equity in Environmental Governance: Case Studies Contrasting the Evolution of ABS and REDD+
- 8. Climate Change, Biodiversity and Human Rights: Can Synergy Help?
- 9. Reducing Emissions in the Forest Sector under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: A New Opportunity for Biodiversity Conservation?
- 10. Transboundary Conservation of Mountain Biodiversity in a Climate Change Impacted World: Governance Perspectives from Central Asia and the Island of Borneo

Part III: Land use and agriculture
- 11. Climate Change, the EU Floods Directive and Biodiversity Protection: Lessons from the Scheldt on Land Use Planning as an Adaptive Measure
- 12. Climate Change and Biodiversity: The Vulnerability of the Amazon Rainforest in the Face of Increasing Ethanol Demand
- 13. The Contribution of the EU Common Agricultural Policy to Protecting Biodiversity and Global Climate in Europe

Part IV: Solutions from science and technology
- 14. Creating Marine Protected Area Networks in Pacific North America for Biodiversity Conservation: Linking Ecology to Legislation
- 15. Preventing and Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss through Biosecurity

Index