GEO BON Global Conference: Monitoring Biodiversity for Action
A whole of society approach for urgent and transformative change
• GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY OBSERVING SYSTEM (GBiOS)
• ESSENTIAL VARIABLES
• SCIENCE & INNOVATION
• POLICY & ENGAGEMENT
• COMMUNITY-BASED MONITORING
• COMMUNICATION ACROSS SOCIETY
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The registration is now open!
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.
Organizers
Partners
Location
Centre Mont-Royal
200, Rue Mansfield Montréal, QC Canada, H3A 3R8Submission period
April 17, 2023 - 04:00 until June 5, 2023 - 04:00
Contact us
For any questions about the event, please contact conf2023@geobon.org