In this Guide we introduce the need to adjust our approach to biodiversity conservation to account for a rapidly changing climate. Toward a national conversation, we outline some potential new principles and link them to new or revised strategic goals and potential implementation actions. We then describe a suite of new measures to assist with planning actions, all of which have been derived from the community-level models introduced in Implications of Climate Change for Biodiversity.
This Guide is intended as a reference to explain the interpretation and use of the new measures we introduce and comprises seven sections.
Section 2 offers a general discussion of the need for new principles to guide biodiversity conservation in a rapidly changing climate, and associated options for facilitating adaptation of biodiversity to climate change.
Sections 3 to 6 introduce four new measures that aim to inform the design or exploration of particular adaptation options:
Section 7 draws together a summary of the information provided in this Guide and linkages with the earlier Implications of Climate Change for Biodiversity.