Biodiversa+ is happy to announce the launch of the BiodivClim Knowledge Hub!
Protecting and restoring biodiversity is crucial to addressing climate change, which is a direct driver of biodiversity loss. Working with Nature to conserve, manage and restore ecosystems – notably through nature-based solutions – is one of the most cost-effective approaches to mitigating and adapting to climate change, and thus reducing one of the pressure factors on biodiversity. However, several knowledge gaps remain and efforts for the uptake of available evidence by policy and practice need to be scaled up.
Against this background and in the context of its ‘BiodivClim’ ERANET COFUND action, Biodiversa+ has launched a pan-European Knowledge Hub on the topic “Potential of nature-based solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change”.
The BiodivClim knowledge hub is a community of practice that aims at enhancing research collaborations, knowledge and data sharing and academic outputs, as well as supporting science-policy/science-society interfacing to increase the impact of funded research. It is composed of 32 researchers from BiodivClim funded projects, projects funded under H2020 Research and Innovation Actions, and projects funded by Joint Programme Initiatives such as FACCE-JPI and JPI Climate).
The BiodivClim knowledge hub was launched on 8 and 9 February 2023 in Brussel, allowing the experts to gather and reflect on the implementation of the knowledge hub work plan. They agreed to work on the following products over the next two years:
- Papers on knowledge gaps and implementation gaps related to NBS for climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Policy briefs and products to feed IPBES & IPCC assessments
- Organisation of conferences, including the organisation of sessions during the 2023 ECCA conference, to be held from 19 to 21 June 2023 in Dublin
