Biodiversa+ is very pleased to be co-organising the 17th Alternet Summer School! This year’s edition will take place from 30 August to 9 September 2023 in Peyresq, France. Save the date! Alternet Summer School Open to graduate and postgraduate scientists, as well as professionals, the Alternet Summer School creates an innovative atmosphere for considering and resolving…
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The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted at the biodiversity summit COP15, along with a framework for its monitoring. In this context, it was decided to establish an ad hoc technical expert group to advise on the operationalisation of the monitoring framework. The mandate of this expert group runs until UNCBD’s COP16. The Convention on…
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The first external review of the thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health (nexus assessment) is open from 9 January to 19 February 2023 (6 weeks). You can now become a reviewer for the first draft of the chapters of the IPBES nexus assessment! By becoming a reviewer you’ll be involved in…
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Biodiversa+ is pleased to announce that our next joint call for research will be on Nature-based Solutions! Nature-based solutions are understood as ‘actions to protect, conserve, restore, sustainably use and manage natural or modified terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems, which address social, economic and environmental challenges effectively and adaptively, while simultaneously providing human well-being,…
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In October 2021 Biodiversa+ has launched its BiodivProtect call on “Supporting the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems across land and sea”. The call funds 3-year transnational research projects, and was co-funded by the European Commission. It addressed the following three (non-exclusive) themes: Knowledge for identifying priority conservation areas, establishing effective and resilient ecological networks, enhancing…
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Biodiversity’s equivalent to climate’s 1.5 degrees objective has been adopted: the 30 x 30. On 19 December 2022, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) agreement was reached at the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15). It aims “to protect 30% of the planet for nature by 2030, reform $500…
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One of Biodiversa+’s objectives is to harmonise biodiversity monitoring schemes across Europe. A key step to tackle this issue was to carry out a literature survey on existing transnational biodiversity monitoring programmes, to get an idea of what is being done and how. This study has analysed fourteen case studies. It shows the possible strategy…
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Biodiversa+, through the French Foundation for Research on Biodiversity (FRB) has opened a call for tenders. We are looking for a service provider to carry out a literature review on the capacity of NBS to foster transformative change for the sustainable use and management of biodiversity in socio-ecological systems. Through its subtask “Desk studies and…
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Towards a European Biodiversity Observation Network Our Chair and Coordinator, Hilde Eggermont, was at the 8th session of the COP15’s Science-Policy Forum alongside EuropaBON’s Henrique Pereira to present our efforts in setting up a regional observation network for biodiversity monitoring in Europe. In her presentation, Hilde discussed: The context and legal framework of biodiversity…
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Contribute to shape the IPBES rolling work programme The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) would like to gather requests, inputs and suggestions regarding the rolling work programme of IPBES up to 2030, in time for consideration by the Plenary at its tenth session (2023), and to consider at the same session…
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