When 2022-08-24 14:00 to 2022-08-24 16:00 Location Czech Republic Join Biodiversa+ and EuropaBON’s symposium at the ECCB on Tuesday! This week, Biodiversa+ and EuropaBON are joining forces at the European Conference of Conservation Biology. On Tuesday at 14:00, the initiatives are co-organising a symposium on the future of biodiversity monitoring in Europe. We invite participants…
In view of the upcoming Transformative Change Assessment of the IPBES, the scientific journal Biodiversity and Conservation is preparing a special issue on how such transformative change can help achieve the 2050 vision of biodiversity. The journal Biodiversity and Conservation invite interested individuals to submit a short synopsis of a topic they would like to…
How can Research & Innovation help achieve EU goals for Nature-Based Solutions development and deployment? Have your say and help shape the European Research & Innovation Roadmap for NBS! Biodiversa+, as part of NetworkNature, is facilitating the development of the EU R&I Roadmap for Nature-based solutions and is now opening a public consultation on its first draft until the 18th of September. This…
Results from the Digging Deeper project. While antibiotics help us fight tough diseases, they leave our gut biomes in poor condition. It turns out that pesticides have a similar effect on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), a plant symbiont that is found in our soils and that helps plants acquire nutrients. That is what the Biodiversa-project…
More than 50 methods and approaches exist to make the diverse values of nature visible, experts say. Following the launch of the Sustainable Use of Wild Species Assessment Report last Friday, the IPBES has released today a second major scientific report, the Assessment Report on the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature (known as the…
50,000 wild species meet the needs of billions of people – Experts propose options to ensure their sustainable use On 8 July 2022, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) launched the Sustainable Use of Wild Species Assessment Report, the latest scientific report on the sustainable use of wild species, which millions of…
The Water4All Partnership has just announced their upcoming call to be launched in September 2022. Water4All is pleased to pre-announce a joint transnational call for research and innovation projects on “Management of water resources for increased resilience, adaptation and mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events”. Topics: Resilience, adaptation and mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events Tools for water…
3 June 2022 As part of its work programme, Biodiversa+ aims at setting up a forum for evidence-based policy implementation and training driven by the main question of “how to reach the protection targets of Biodiversity Strategy by 2030?”. This science-based policy forum gathering Biodiversa+ Partners, researchers, relevant national representatives/ actors and policy makers will…
“On the eve of the launch of two new Assessment Reports by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Biodiversa+ proposes to highlight very concrete actions and results at pan-European* level for the sustainable use of biodiversity and to better take into account the different values of biodiversity.” On Tuesday 28…
Get ready for the upcoming Biodiversa+ Call on “Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society” Biodiversa+ is pleased to announce that it will soon launch a new transnational joint research call on the following topic: Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society. It is scheduled to be launched…