Back-to-back summits on climate change and biodiversity will offer the world a unique chance to come together on two of the most critical issues of our time - climate and biodiversity. Change is possible. But given the size of the crises, we must use the coming two months to be brutally honest about where we are and where we must get to.

In this article for Devex, GEF CEO and Chairperson Carlos Manuel Rodriguez writes how key stakeholders need to seek unity on the well-being of our planet over the next eight weeks at climate COP27 and biodiversity COP15.