Promoting and implementing joint programming to reinforce transnational research at the crossroad between biodiversity and climate change (BiodivClim)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Protection of the environment, sustainable management of natural resources, water , biodiversity and ecosystems
Action type: ERA-NET Cofund
Partnership: BiodivClim (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Germany,Estonia,Germany,Austria,Spain,Spain,Israel,South Africa,Germany,Ireland,Norway,Tunisia,Türkiye,Bulgaria,Finland,Greece,Lithuania,Poland,Sweden,Switzerland,Belgium,Romania,Slovakia,Latvia,France,France,France,Czechia,Denmark,Portugal,Portugal
Call: ERA-NET Cofund action on biodiversity and climate change: Impacts, feedbacks, and nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation (H2020-LC-CLA-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15151516.0
EU funding (EUR): 5000000.0
Participants: 37
Project status: SIGNED

The biodiversity-climate change interaction is strong, bi-directional, and often positive (actions in favour of one are also beneficial to the other). While the main drivers of biodiversity loss are habitat degradation, the syndrome of factors directly & indirectly associated with climate change is the dominant threat to biodiversity. It is therefore imperative to understand with sufficient detail and confidence the interactions between biodiversity & climate change so they can be incorporated into decision-support models & tools. By networking 36 funding agencies from 25 countries from Europe & other continents, BiodivClim aims to promote coordinated international research on biodiversity & climate change in all environments, incl. agricultural areas. It will strengthen research & research programmes coordination with the ultimate aim to provide policy makers & other stakeholders with adequate knowledge, tools & practical solutions to improve the conservation & sustainable use of biodiversity & ecosystems under a changing climate. The BiodivClim objectives are to: -Coordinate the research agendas of major European & international research funders to agree on shared research priorities related to biodiversity & climate change -Reinforce collaboration with other relevant initiatives in the field to increase synergies & avoid fragmentation -Design & implement a joint co-funded call for research proposals and a knowledge hub in this field -Promote research collaboration across national borders & disciplines in order to build capacity, exchange best practices & have a lasting effect on the international research community & landscape -Support dialogue & collaboration between academia & stakeholders, and stakeholder engagement in research projects in order to increase the impact of research on policy & practice -Ease rapid & efficient uptake of funded research results by the IPBES & IPCC for their future assessments, & by other relevant initiatives -Reinforce data open access

Keywords: biodiversity,nature s contribution to people,climate change,mitigation,adaptation,nature based solution,socio ecological systems,governance processes,inter and trans disciplinary