Strengthening IPs&LCs and CSO Leadership in Climate and Biodiversity Governance in Southeast Asia

“The world faces the interrelated crises of climate change and biodiversity decline. These pressing issues not only jeopardize our planet’s ecological systems and their inhabitants but also pose grave risks to human welfare.

The need for transformative change to address biodiversity loss was highlighted in the IPCC Global Assessment Report on Climate Change and the IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, which define transformative change as a fundamental, system-wide realignment of technological, social, and economic structures to tackle both direct and indirect drivers of climate and biodiversity degradation.

While various other influential reports have also advocated for transformative change, this concept for tackling both climate and biodiversity challenges has garnered increasing attention from policymakers, scholars, and the broader public.” Learn more.