There are considerable opportunities for strong synergies between food production, climate mitigation, climate adaptation and promotion of biodiversity in agricultural ecosystems. However, current trends in agricultural practices are projected to lead to greatly increased land area used for agriculture and pollution making agriculture the principal driver of terrestrial biodiversity loss over the next decades. In addition, opportunities for greatly improving the capacity of agricultural ecosystems to mitigate and adapt to climate using nature-based solutions are underexploited. Global scale models and scenarios can provide insights into nonsustainable and sustainable trajectories in agricultural practices, and more broadly food systems, and to identify interventions that would provide the greatest benefits and synergies. This presentation will focus on updates of work carried out for the Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 and reports recently prepared for the CBD on the relationships between biodiversity and climate.
This presentation was delivered during the fifth session (Planning for a Changing Climate) of the 8th Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity: Food Systems for a Sustainable Future.
