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315© The Author(s) 2019 M. R. Marselle et al. (eds.), Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02318-8_14 Chapter 14 Global Developments: Policy Support for  Linking Biodiversity, Health and  Climate Change Horst  Korn, Jutta  Stadler, and  Aletta  Bonn Abstract This chapter highlights key policy processes at the international level dealing with the alignment of policies for the biodiversity-climate-health nexus. Recent developments by UN Conventions and major international organisations, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Ramsar Convention and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), together with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Intergovernmental Science- Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem  Services (IPBES), are discussed. Special attention is given to newly emerging integrative global policy processes and partnerships between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the WHO, also in the framework of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and avenues to translate them into local policy through the global partnership ICLEI  – Local Governments for Sustainability. Conclusions are drawn to foster the joint imple- mentation of policy goals. Keywords Biodiversity-climate-health nexus · Science-policy interface · UN conventions · CBD partnership · IPBES · SDG goals Highlights • Policy agendas of health promotion, climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation are starting to become aligned. H. Korn (*) · J. Stadler Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Isle of Vilm, Putbus, Germany e-mail: horst.korn@bfn.de; jutta.stadler@bfn.de A. Bonn Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research  – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany e-mail: aletta.bonn@ufz.de