Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity Activities related to Biodiversity and Climate Change Background

At its fifth meeting, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the CBD highlighted the risks of climate change, in particular, to coral reefs (decision V/3) and to forest ecosystems (decision V/4), and drew attention to the serious impacts of biodiversity loss on these systems and their associated livelihoods. The cross-cutting issue on biodiversity and climate change was included in the work under the Convention in 2004 through decision VII/15 of the Conference of Parties (COP). In 2001, the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA