Climate change within Guangxi Province will affect not only people, but also species and ecosystems. Mitigation and adaptation activities, including ecosystem-based approaches within forest, can offer potentially large benefits. Furthermore, given their link with biodiversity, such activities can provide opportunities to make progress towards achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Targets that are directly relevant for forest-based climate change mitigation and adaptation, in particular targets for reducing deforestation (Target 5), restoration (Target 15), protected areas (Target 11) and restoring and safeguarding ecosystem services (Target 14). Spatial analysis can help maximise these synergies between climate change mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity conservation. 

This report aims to provide decision makers and technical advisers, including those within the Environmental Protection, Agriculture, Forestry and Water Resources departments, with insights into broad range of spatial analyses which can contribute to identifying areas where synergies can be achieved for climate change mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity conservation. Such insights will support them on how spatial analyses can contribute to identifying areas where such synergies can be achieved, and how such analyses could inform planning and policy making processes.