Line of action:

International relations

Status:

Finalizado

Execution date:

2024

End date:

2025

Total budget:

€253,000.00

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

€227,500.00

The European Union has recently made public its proposal to reduce the targets to 2040, a proposal that will have to modify the current regulations, extending its time frame and increasing the reduction of emissions until the economy is almost decarbonised.

At the same time, the EU should strengthen the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Framework for the Protection of Biodiversity, with it, the Strategic Plan for Natural Heritage and Biodiversity to 2030.

Both sides of the ecological crisis will converge at COP30 on climate and in the progress of Colombia’s COP19 agreements, an interrelationship that is proving increasingly necessary for both spaces to dialogue in the proposal of solutions that jointly address the challenges. This project aims to continue the knowledge and participation of civil society in these frameworks, in order to transfer improvement measures to the public administration.

The general objective of the project is to develop, study and transfer measures from civil society to the public administration on the development of national and international regulations on climate change and biodiversity for the fulfilment of the EU’s international commitments, the United Nations Framework Convention and the Convention for Biological Diversity. Special attention is paid to the state’s regulatory instruments such as the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan, and the Strategic Plan for Natural Heritage and Biodiversity to 2030.

To achieve this, count on these specific goals:

• Issue reports and proposals from civil society on the development of laws and Royal Decrees for compliance with international agreements and obligations to the EU in terms of biodiversity and climate change and energy transition.
• Study, participate in and monitor possible international regulations and agreements on climate and biodiversity protection, as well as transfer information and participate as representatives of civil society in the framework of international negotiations.
• Analyse and propose measures to increase Spain’s climate ambition in international commitments, by studying the changes necessary to comply with the new European climate objectives for 2035 and 2040 in Spanish climate regulations.
• Analyze the implementation of international agreements on biodiversity in state policies, making proposals for the application of the Strategic Plan for Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, through meetings with other social organizations and the central administration to collaborate in achieving its objectives.
• Analyse the interrelationship between climate and biodiversity, especially by increasing knowledge about the impacts and possible solutions of measures such as nature-based solutions, offsetting emissions and poor climate adaptation.

• Monitoring of national policies.
• Monitoring of international policies and frameworks.
• The application in Spain of the new EU climate objectives in 2040.
• Follow-up on the implementation of the goals and objectives of the CBD in Spain.
• The interrelationship between biodiversity and climate in the CBD and the UNFCCC and its impacts.
• Dissemination and communication of the project.

This project has developed a follow-up of national and international policies dedicated to the climate emergency and biodiversity, highlighting the active presence of the entity in the international meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Through this initiative, the analysis of fundamental regulatory frameworks such as the European Strategy to prevent deforestation, the Natural Heritage Law and the updating of the PNIEC has been deepened, in addition to the long-term strategy of the European Union and the set of legislative packages that emanate from the community directives.

As the central axis of its results, the project has culminated in the publication of three technical reports of relevance to the current environmental debate:

• The first explores the complex interrelationships between climate and biodiversity on the international stage.
• The second report provides an assessment ten years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement.
• The third document assesses with concern the delay in the publication of the European Union’s climate objectives for 2040 and warns about how the new political cycle is promoting a supposed administrative simplification that, in practice, is eliminating essential environmental regulations for the fight against global warming and the loss of species.