Official UN decisions and documents

Convention on Wetlands Resolution XV.4 recognises the relevance of wetlands to achieving multiple global goals and supports collaboration with other multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), UN bodies and other international organisations to improve synergies, share resources, avoid duplication, and enhance implementation.

An informal Party-led process established in 2019 and recognized through several resolutions and decisions by multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) governing bodies, organized by UNEP in close collaboration with the Secretariat of the CBD, the Government of Switzerland, and other partners. It aims to strengthen cooperation and synergies among the Parties, the MEA Secretariats (16 MEAs, including the Rio Conventions, the biodiversity-related conventions and the chemicals and waste conventions), and relevant stakeholders, to support the effective implementation of the KMGBF.

UNEA-6 resolutions 6/4 and 6/6 support synergetic national implementation and compilation of good practices, tools, success stories and lessons learned highlighting cooperation and collaboration in multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) implementation. UNEP has advanced implementation of the resolutions by compiling case studies, providing country level capacity building, and promoting collaboration for synergetic reporting. UNEA-7 will address MEA cooperation through an agenda item and an “MEAs Day”.

This summary distills the findings of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land, addressing how land systems contribute to climate change and how climate change affects land systems. It covers topics such as desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.

This report summarizes the outcomes of the first-ever joint workshop between the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), focusing on the synergies and trade-offs between biodiversity protection and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

This document proposes elements for a joint work programme to enhance collaboration between the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). It emphasizes coordinated national planning, addressing common drivers of environmental degradation, and promoting enabling activities to achieve the objectives of the three conventions.