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

Date and time: Novem­ber 18, 2025, 13:00–14:30 BRT (18:00 — 19:30 Kyiv time)
Loca­tion: Ukraine Pavil­ion, Hangar Con­ven­tion and Fair Cen­tre of the Ama­zon, Belém, Brazil
For­mat: Hybrid
Orga­niz­ers: Min­istry of Econ­o­my, Envi­ron­ment and Agri­cul­ture of Ukraine, in part­ner­ship with the IKI-Inter­face Ukraine project and Oxford Net Zero

Lan­guage: Eng­lish
Pri­or reg­is­tra­tion is required via the link: https://bit.ly/registration_IKI

COP30, host­ed in the Ama­zon heart­land, rep­re­sents an impor­tant oppor­tu­ni­ty to dis­cuss bio­di­ver­si­ty-cli­mate syn­er­gies under CBD and UNFCCC. 

Bio­di­ver­si­ty con­ser­va­tion will also take cen­ter stage at the Ukraine Pavil­ion. The Min­istry of Econ­o­my, Envi­ron­ment and Agri­cul­ture of Ukraine, in coop­er­a­tion with the IKI Inter­face Ukraine project and Oxford Net Zero, will host an event address­ing how war exac­er­bates dual crises. In par­tic­u­lar, 139,000 km² of poten­tial land­mine con­t­a­m­i­na­tion threat­ens bio­di­ver­si­ty, along­side an eco­nom­ic dis­rup­tion that under­mines the imple­men­ta­tion of cli­mate action. 

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).

The event is orga­nized at the ini­tia­tive of the Min­istry of Econ­o­my, Envi­ron­ment and Agri­cul­ture of Ukraine with the sup­port of the IKI Inter­face Ukraine project and Oxford Net Zero. The project “IKI Inter­face: Sup­port­ing Ukraine towards Ambi­tious and Inte­grat­ed Cli­mate Pol­i­cy (Green Ukraine)” is imple­ment­ed by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Inter­na­tionale Zusam­me­nar­beit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf the Fed­er­al Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment, Nature Con­ser­va­tion, Nuclear Safe­ty and Con­sumer Pro­tec­tion (BMUKN), with­in the frame­work of the Inter­na­tion­al Cli­mate Ini­tia­tive (IKI).