GEO BON Global Conference: Monitoring Biodiversity for Action

The Global Conference on Biodiversity and Monitoring is organized by GEO BON and its partners between 10-13 October 2023 in Montreal, Canada.

One year after COP15 of the UN CBD and the landmark agreement of a Global Biodiversity Framework, the GEO BON global conference will focus on the grand challenge of ‘Monitoring Biodiversity for Action’. A central theme will be the development of best practices and new technologies for biodiversity observations and monitoring to support transformative policy and conservation action.

The conference will offer a venue for sharing and exchanging scientific and traditional knowledge related to biodiversity change, from genes to ecosystems; the associated contributions to people, across all sectors of society; and its conservation, sustainable use and shared benefits.

We invite researchers, policy-makers, Indigenous peoples and local communities, conservation organizations, businesses and others in the financial sector to join us in Montreal.

Sessions accepting abstracts

• Linking biodiversity monitoring networks to assess biodiversity change across scales
• From Insight to Action: Mapping Europe's Biodiversity Initiatives and their Path towards 2030 Ambitions
• AI for insect monitoring
• Importance of Earth Observation to monitor and assess the drivers of biodiversity changes
• Climate change as a driver of biodiversity and ecosystem change - novel uses of satellite remote sensing
• Innovative use of Earth Observation products in support to nature finance challenges
• SEEA Ecosystem Accounting and Biodiversity
• Global analyses and macrogenetic theories to quantify and monitor genetic diversity for the Global Biodiversity Frameworks
• Biomolecular approaches for global biodiversity observation
• Standardized eDNA-based biodiversity monitoring to inform environmental stewardship programs
• Unlocking eDNA as a biodiversity monitoring and conservation tool in tropical landscapes
• Biodiversity monitoring in aquatic ecosystems to support a whole society approach to transformative change
• Monitoring Ecosystem Services: where do we stand and how do we move forward?
• Advances in biodiversity modeling from monitoring to mitigation
• Innovative approaches to monitoring, documenting, and communicating change in freshwater biodiversity
• Ten years of Essential Biodiversity Variables: How are we calculating them?

Please submit your abstract here before June 5th.