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Introduction. At its fifth meeting in 2000, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) noted that there was a significant evidence that climate change was a primary cause of the 1998 extensive coral bleaching and made references to the possible interactions between climate change and the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity in forests. In order to draw to the attention of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the need for reducing and mitigating the impacts of climate change on coral reefs and forest biological diversity, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity requested its Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) to review the impacts of climatic change on forest biological diversity10 and prepare scientific advice for the integration of biodiversity considerations into the implementation of the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol.