Cop 27 And Biodiversity: Towards An Integrated Approach To Climate Change Mitigation And Biodiversity Conservation
Kariuki Muigua
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Abstract: Climate change mitigation measures and biodiversity conservation have often been treated as separate. However,COP 27 for the first time,comprehensively created a platform for deliberations on tackling both as a step towards achieving sustainable development. This paper highlights the outcomes of COP 27 which took place in November 2022 in Egypt,dubbed â??African COPâ?. Notably,the main focus of this paper as far as COP 27 is concerned was the encouragement of adoption of nature-based solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss. The author argues that there is a need for climate change mitigation efforts and biodiversity protection and conservation measures to consider the nature-based approaches and also create an opportunity for collaborative approaches in these between communities and government agencies.