The fight against global warming and for sustainable development can only succeed if all political decisions take the issues of climate protection, biodiversity and social justice into account equally. This is the core message in the recent peer-reviewed workshop report, Biodiversity and Climate Change, by 50 of the world’s leading biodiversity and climate change experts and assembled by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They conclude that healthy ecosystems can make longterm contributions to climate protection.