Journal
AMBIO
Volume 51, Issue 6, Pages 1459-1473Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01679-8
Keywords
Biodiversity conservation; Climate mitigation; Cross-sectoral integration; Informed decisions; Natural climate solutions
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- Research Council of Norway [RCN 160022/F40, RCN 295191]
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Climate change has had a significant impact on science-policy dialogue and environmental policies, leading to independent actions on climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation, while neglecting conflicts and missed opportunities for synergies. Transformative governance principles have been proposed to address these limitations.
Climate change has considerably dominated science-policy dialogue, public debate, and subsequently environmental policies since the three Rio Conventions were born. This has led to practically independent courses of action of climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation actions, neglecting potential conflicts among outcomes and with missed opportunities for synergistic measures. Transformative governance principles have been proposed to overcome these limitations. Using a transformative governance lens, we use the case of the Norwegian Climate Cure 2030 for the Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sector to, first, illustrate the mechanisms that have led to the choice of climate mitigation measures; second, to analyze the potential consequences of these measures on biodiversity and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; and, third, to evaluate alternative measures with potential positive outcomes for biodiversity and GHG emissions/removals. We point to some mechanisms that could support the implementation of these positive actions.
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