{"id":390170,"date":"2025-11-27T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/?p=390170"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:51:55","slug":"reflections-on-sdgp-webinars-lessons-learnt-best-practices-and-ways-forward-for-biodiversity-and-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/story\/reflections-on-sdgp-webinars-lessons-learnt-best-practices-and-ways-forward-for-biodiversity-and-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on SDGP webinars: lessons learnt, best practices, and ways forward for biodiversity and climate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The SDGP Knowledge Exchange Webinar Series, hosted this year by IUCN NL, reNature, and VU Amsterdam, on behalf of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), brought together people from around the world to explore how partnerships can combine climate and biodiversity goals in projects, strategies, and businesses. The six webinars shared ideas from field projects, global frameworks, market systems, and monitoring approaches highlighting specific examples from SDGP projects. They show that sustainability challenges are linked across local action, policy, finance, and science.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Header photo: women working on a reforestation project in Uganda by ECOTRUST \u00a9 Fanny Verkuijlen \/ IUCN NL<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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The Sustainable Development Goals Partnership (SDGP) Webinar Series demonstrated that achieving climate and biodiversity goals requires integrated approaches, inclusive governance, credible finance, and adaptive systems. Focusing on isolated short-term projects alone is not sufficient. Instead, we should take integrated steps to manage ecosystems, cut pollution, ensure proper water management, promote agro-ecological practices, and tackle climate change. Interventions should be inclusive of women and youth to ensure social equity and sustainable outcomes. By applying these lessons in future partnerships and business cases, projects can become examples of sustainable development, delivering ecological resilience, economic opportunity, and social justice together. In this article, we share a summary of key lessons learnt, best practices, and ways forward for SDGP projects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Watch all SDGP webinars here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Key lesson 1: moving beyond silos \u2013 climate and biodiversity as one<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Climate and biodiversity cannot be treated separately. As demonstrated in the 2024 IPBES nexus report<\/a>, food, water, climate, biodiversity, and health are deeply connected. The report indicates that \u2018Societal, economic and policy decisions that prioritize short-term benefits and financial returns for a small number of people while ignoring negative impacts on biodiversity and other nexus elements such as climate and water lead to unequal human well-being outcomes.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The following best practices can be drawn from the webinars:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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