Recommendation 17

These environmental changes are accelerating and have global consequences for climate stability and biodiversity. While the Antarctic Treaty System provides important protections, it cannot address climate change and biodiversity loss in isolation. Antarctica’s scientific and environmental significance must be better integrated into international climate and nature negotiations. The UK has a key role in ensuring that Antarctic issues, including the protection of its fragile biodiversity, are consistently represented in global forums such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity processes. (Conclusion, Paragraph 106)