Mar
Grand Seminar - Implementing International Agreements on Biodiversity in Sweden
Welcome to this seminar where we will learn about how research and policy interact and discuss potential consequences for future research and collaboration, if we are to reach the goals of the Global Biodiversity Framework and the EU Nature Restoration Law.
The national implementation of biodiversity conservation and restoration strategies and plans rests on several levels of policy formulation - international, national and regional - that must be considered. In 2023 the CBD Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework was adopted, which requests countries to develop National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBASP). In 2024 the binding EU Nature Restoration Law was agreed upon. Finding the overlaps, synergies, and potential conflicting interests, as well as accounting for the consequences of different policy choices, is important when carving out national strategies and plans, including their specific targets and their implementation.
How do countries take such agreements and policies into account when designing a NBASP, including implementing the goals? How is scientific knowledge introduced and used in these national implementation processes? This seminar will investigate these processes from a Swedish perspective, but also invites inspiration from other European countries.
Please register in the link below for online participation, at the latest 21 March. Onsite participation is now full.
Programme
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome
09:10 – 09:40 Reflections on the CBD process from a Swedish perspective
Malte Timpte, Naturvårdsverket/SEPA
09:40 – 10:00 How to achieve goals: Knowledge demands and opportunities for collaboration
Axel Paulsch, Institute for Biodiversity, Germany
10:00 – 10:20 Reflections on Norway’s implementation of the biodiversity agreements
Maja Stade Aarønæs, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
10:20 – 10:50 Fika
10:50 – 11:10 Implementation of EU Nature restoration law: Synergies and opportunities for collaboration in meeting global targets on biodiversity
Anna Forslund, Naturvårdsverket/SEPA
11:10 – 11:30 The role of science in policy processes
Henrik Smith, Lund University
11:30 – 11:50 Innovation at the Science-Policy Interface: The EU Science Service for Biodiversity
Marie Vandewalle, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:45 Workshop/discussion on future knowledge needs – research and synthesis
14:45 – 15:00 Conclusions and ways forward
15:00 – 15:30 Fika & mingle
BECC is a collaboration between Lund University and University of Gothenburg in Sweden. BECC brings together more than 350 scientists from the natural and social sciences to perform research on the combined consequences of anthropogenic emissions, climate and land-use changes on biodiversity and ecosystem services on multiple scales, to provide a scientific basis for the sustainable management of ecosystems and biodiversity.
LU Land is a thematic collaboration initiative at Lund University, focusing on issues related to sustainable land-use. LU Land consists of more than 60 researchers and almost 30 societal actors.
LU Profile Area: Nature-based future solutions focuses on ecosystem-based approaches to handle biodiversity loss and climate change, and how the intertwined crises can be linked to sustainable societal development. The profile Area spans 5 faculties within Lund University.
www.portal.research.lu/profile-area
About the event
Location:
Gamla biskopshuset, Lund & zoom
Contact:
lina [dot] nikoleris [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se