Synergies for Resilience: Integrated Path to Climate and Biodiversity Goals in Ukraine and Beyond

COP30, hosted in the Amazon heartland, represents an important opportunity to discuss biodiversity-climate synergies under CBD and UNFCCC. Ukraine’s pavilion event aligns with this by addressing how war exacerbates dual crises—e.g., 139,000 km² of potential landmine contamination threatening biodiversity, alongside a 76% emissions drop in 2023 due to economic disruption (yet risking rebound without sustained action). Ukraine’s experience offers lessons for resilience in fragile contexts, tying into COP30 themes of “Finance for Forest” and “Peace-Climate Nexus.” As an EU candidate, Ukraine’s strategies mirror the European Green Deal, promoting equitable transitions.

This event will spotlight Ukraine’s pioneering integration of climate and biodiversity agendas amid ongoing war and need for further recovery, emphasizing how achieving one amplifies the other. By showcasing national goals, progress-tracking mechanisms, and draft National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, NBSAP, it positions Ukraine as a model for conflict-affected nations pursuing green reconstruction aligned with the Paris Agreement and Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).