Climate Security Mechanism
Bridging Climate Action, Peace and Security
Bridging Conflicts and Biodiversity Protection: The Critical Role of Reliable and Comparable Data

Bridging Conflicts and Biodiversity Protection: The Critical Role of Reliable and Comparable Data

  • 27 February 2025
  • World Bank

Biodiversity conservation emerges as a pathway for trust-building and collaboration, aligning stakeholders around shared goals such as climate resilience and sustainable livelihoods. Reliable and comparable data sets are critical for evidence-based planning, fostering dialogue and cooperation among divided groups. The estimates presented in this paper aim to support robust, data-driven strategies to safeguard biodiversity in geopolitically sensitive and overlapping regions, with far-reaching implications for global conservation and international cooperation.