UNESCO Intersectoral Platform for Action to Address Climate Change

• Martin Warren, Butterfly Conservation
• Researchers are using bioclimatic models for the Mazarine Blue butterfly, Polymommatus semiargus, to determine what locations within its historic British range will be suitable for its reintroduction.

The Intersectoral Platform for Action to Address Climate Change is tasked to oversee UNESCO’s Strategy for Action on Climate Change as approved at the Organization’s 179th Executive Board in April 2008. Subsequently an Enhanced Plan of Action to implement the Strategy has been prepared at the Board’s request. The Platform reports to the Executive Board each autumn session on its progress. More