In the context of the conference of the European Parliament intergroup on ‘Climate change, biodiversity & sustainable development’, DG-RTD and IUCN organized an event including 4 round table debates in the European Parliament (Brussels; Tuesday 24th September).
The aim of this conference was to present and discuss the contributions of various actors to the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 and allowed experience and knowledge sharing between policy-makers and stakeholders. In his capacity of BiodivERsA coordinator, Dr. Xavier Le Roux participated to the debate “Linking biodiversity science to policy-making”, and illustrated the role of BiodivERsA in promoting knowledge brokerage and dissimination of key results to policy makers and other stakeholders.