BECC Annual Meeting 2025 - Restoring Nature under Climate Change

Please register before the 20th June in the link below.

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Preliminary programme 

Day 1

9.00-9.30 Coffee and registration

9.30-12.00 Defining Restoration: Baselines, Goals and Trade-offs

This session explores what we mean by “restoration”, how we choose baselines and goals, and how we navigate trade-offs. We will question the differences between conservation and restoration, reflect on whether we should restore to historical baselines, and consider how future climate change challenges these choices.  

• Conservation, restoration - what are the conceptual and practical differences or similarities?
• Restoring to what?
• Restoring to an uncertain future based on historic baselines? The role and importance of understanding future climate change impacts in restoration activities - are the conflicts in the laws?

12-13 Lunch

13.00-15.00 

Policy & Global Perspectives: The Role of Restoration Laws, Keynote: Annette Löf, SEI (confirmed) and Rachel Kristensen

• Implementation of restoration agreements and laws
• Global implication of EU Nature restoration law - protecting/restoring at home, increasing pressures somewhere else

15.00-16.00 Poster session and fika

16.00-17.00 Panel talk

Day 2

8.00-10.00 PI-meeting

9.00 - 10.00 Workshop for non-PIs:  Let’s Talk Methods: Challenges, Needs, and Collaboration 

This workshop invites BECC members to share quick elevator pitches about their research and the challenges they face in their work—especially methods. What do you need help with? What can you offer others? The goal is to connect people with different kinds of expertise and encourage collaboration. The session will also highlight the BECC Knowledge Commons as a shared resource to support learning, exchange, and new ideas. Whether you’re looking for advice, tools, or research partners, this is a space to start the conversation. 

10.30-11.30 Restoration in Working Landscapes: Agriculture and Forestry

This session looks at how restoration can work in landscapes that are used for agriculture and forestry. Researchers will present their research on what kinds of restoration are possible in these areas, and what challenges and trade-offs may come up. Topics can include how to set realistic goals for restoring agricultural land, how to balance forest restoration with timber production, and how people’s values and needs can affect restoration decisions. 

• Restoration in agricultural landscapes - what are feasible targets?
• Restoration in forests - trade-offs between forestry and conservation
• Restoration and societal preference - conflicts between ecological objectives and societal needs/wants

11.30-12.30 Lessons from the Past: What Works and What Doesn't? 
Keynote: Karin Olsson, County Administrative Board Skåne and Carina

What can we learn from restoration projects that are already happening? This session will focus on two large EU-funded projects, LIFE CONNECTS and LIFE RestoRED. Speakers will share what these projects are about, who is involved, and how they work across counties and with different stakeholders and organizations.

The session will also look at how these projects are managed in practice—how they deal with funding, partnerships, and real-life challenges. Have some things worked really well? Have some not gone as planned? What lessons can we take with us for the future? This is a chance to hear honest reflections from the field and to better understand what it takes to make restoration work in the real world. 

12.00 Excursion

Please register before the 20th June in the link below.

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Organisers: Camille Volle (INES), Carolina Rodriguez (CEC), Amelie Lindgren (Dep of Earth Sciences) and Torsten Krause (LUCSUS)