This document gathers the proceedings of the Biodiversity and European Development Cooperation (BEDC) Conference. The aim of the BEDC Conference was to contribute to transforming political commitments into concrete actions by developing recommendations for the European Commission (EC) and European Union (EU) Member States on how to pro-actively address the integration of biodiversity concerns into development cooperation programmes and policies. The BEDC Conference was not therefore an event by environmentalists for environmentalists, but rather aspired to bring together development cooperation representatives and environmentalists to jointly pave the way forward.