Biodiversity and Climate Change

Proceses of political incidence and tools for scientific innovation strengthen institutional governance and are essential for the management of biodiversity and climate change. Colombian research institutes that are associated to the Sistema Nacional Ambiental (National Environmental System) play an important role in leading such processes.

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The direct and indirect effects of climate change affect ecosystems and species differentially, thus increasing the vulnerability of biodiversity. Under the development of the Tercera Comunicación Nacional de Cambio Climático para Colombia (Third National Climate Change Communication for Colombia) the Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales (Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology, and Environmental StudiesIdeam for its initials in Spanish) guided the development of the report Nuevos escenarios de Cambio Climático para Colombia 2010 - 2100¹ (Novel Scenarios of Climate Change for Colombia 2010-2100). This report provides detailed information at a national scale and additionally makes projections for the regional effects of climate change according to hydro-climatic criteria.

The report identifies a greater increase in temperature for states such as Arauca, Vichada, Vaupés, and Norte de Santander as one of the major effects of climate change. Consequences produced by these temperature rises will include increasing sea levels, accelerated melting of snowy summits and glaciers, shrinking of paramo areas, and reduced agricultural productivity.

Research institutes associated to the Sina have therefore developed initiatives to respond to national, regional, and local necessities, preferring processes that use land planning management with the support of indigenous and local knowledge in order to achieve climate change adaptation and mitigation. The goal is to create political tools and improve decision making related to the subject.

Relation between biodiversity and climate change from relevant International Conventions

Ministry of International Relations
Direction of Economi, Social and Environmental Issues

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+ Generate information to calculate habitat loss caused by deforestation

+ Indicators of biodiversity loss with climate change criteria

+ Model adaptation and mitigation measures with local communities 2

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+ (2001) 3

+ (2010) Open 4

+ (2015) 5

+ (2015) 6

+ (2015) 7

+ (2015) 8

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+ Highlight the role of the Amazon as a natural solution for climate change

+ Determine the conservation status of the Amazonian biome and its major factors of transformation: cattle raising, illicit crops, and timber exploitation

+ Evaluate impacts of cliamte change on Andes-Amazon connectivity 2

+ Establish permanent biodiversity and ecosystem services monitoring plots

+ Characterize ecosystems and species in order to strengthen food security in the region

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+ Climate change scenario modeling in the Amazon to evaluate vulnerability, adaptability, and mitigation

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+ Collect regional information on diversity of ethnic groups and ancestral knowledge

+ Monitor the conservation status of strategic ecosystems of the middle and high mountains of Biogeographical Chocó

+ Connect environmental institutions and sectors in subjects of biodiversity and climate change 2

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+ Strenghten community participation processes for local conservation efforts

+ Integrate and strengthen forms of collective property of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples for the conservation of biodiversity

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+ (2016) 4

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+ Include topics of oceanic and coastal ecosystem services in the ministerial agenda

+ Promote climate change adaptation and mitigation actions that are focused on marine and coastal ecosystems

+ Research about mangrove ecosystems and their potential as CO₂ sinks 2

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+ (2012) 3

+ (2014)

+ Creation of the Climate Change Plan for Maritime Ports 4

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+ Internally position the subject of climate change as a scientific and political axis in the different instiutional programs and projects

+ Recognize the existence of records and evidences in territorial transformation due to climate change and the need to influence environmental decision making

+ Develop platforms of climate change learning and modeling 2

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+ (2010) 3

+ (2011) 4

+ (2014) 5

+ (2016) 6

+ Document about biodiversity and climate change synergies in the country

+ Creation of technical input for strategic ecosystems for the integrated management of the territory and adaptation to climate change 7

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Biodiversity and Climate Change

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Climate Change and Extinctions on Mountain Summits

Conservation Plans for Threatened Plants