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strategies for health and biodiversity can contribute to achieving the SDGs and
thereby align conservation, health and climate goals in a comprehensive way.
This report formed the basis for the further development of the topic on
Biodiversity and Human Health at the CBD-COP13Â in Mexico (CBD 2016b). In
this decision, parties, other governments and relevant organisations are invited to
carry out a wide range of comprehensive, integrative and far-reaching activities
based on identified interlinkages at various levels and between different sectors. The
Annex contains a comprehensive list of health-biodiversity linkages, which pro-
vides a good source of information when dealing with other sectors.
Following the COP13-Decision the field progressed rapidly, and already at the
following meeting of the CBD-SBSTTA (Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical
and Technological Advice) the subject on the scientific and technical side (CBD
2017) was further developed. SBSTTA draws on information inter alia from new
reports issued by the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization
on the evidence of urban green spaces for health in 2016 (WHO Regional Office for
Europe 2016), which was followed swiftly by a review of the impact of actual inter-
ventions in urban areas and their effectiveness (WHO Regional Office for Europe
2017). The SBSTTA-Recommendation stresses again the collaboration of different
international organisations, and the national integration of biodiversity and health
aspects into different sectors as vitally important, so that a holistic treatment of the
topic is possible. The topic will therefore remain high on the international agenda.
A memorandum of understanding was signed between the CBD and the WHO in
2015, which provides a solid base for cooperation (WHO and CBD 2015), and also
through an interagency liaison group on biodiversity and health that was established
in 2017.5 During its first meeting, important areas of further work were identified,
such as the need for indicators for biodiversity and health and the development of
simple messages around topics like: (1) ecosystem degradation, (2) diversity of
diets/nutrition, (3) urban green spaces and (4) prevention. Climate change is treated
here as a cross-cutting issue (CBD and WHO 2017).
In 2017, the WHO also co-sponsored the international conference “Biodiversity
and Health in the face of climate changeÂ
– Challenges, Opportunities and Evidence
Gaps” (Marselle et al. 2018), which was organised by the German Federal Agency
for Nature Conservation (BfN) and the European Network of Heads of Nature
Conservation Agencies (ENCA), and which led to formal ENCA recommendations
that are further elaborated on in the concluding chapter of this volume (Marselle
et al. Chap. 20).
The CBD-COP-Decision XIII/3 to enhance implementation of the Aichi targets
and to mainstream and integrate biodiversity within and across sectors (CBD 2016a)
identified health as one of four key mainstreaming sectors for the 2050 Vision of
Biodiversity, which should be taken up in post-2020 consideration of the CBD and
is already an agenda topic of the 14th Conference of the Parties to take place in
Egypt in November 2018.
5 See: https://www.cbd.int/health/ilg-health/default.shtml H. Korn et al.
Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
- Title
- Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
- Authors
- Melissa Marselle
- Jutta Stadler
- Horst Korn
- Katherine Irvine
- Aletta Bonn
- Publisher
- Springer Open
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-02318-8
- Size
- 15.5 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 508
- Keywords
- Environment, Environmental health, Applied ecology, Climate change, Biodiversity, Public health, Regional planning, Urban planning
- Categories
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima