NAVIGATE

Navigating the policy landscape: barriers and synergies in climate and biodiversity policies.

There is no shortage of public policies aimed at promoting sustainable development in general and climate and biodiversity objectives in particular. On the contrary, there are plenty of strategies for sustainable societal transformation that span the local, national and global levels. Despite this, important environmental objectives are currently not yet achieved, as current climate and biodiversity strategies face a number of barriers to effective implementation and target achievement, such as a poor match between overall objectives and concrete instruments, implementation failures, conflicts between different environmental strategies, with strategies in other policy areas, or with the agendas and actions of different societal actors. Together, these barriers are important root causes of failure to meet targets and poor performance.