Reversing biodiversity loss – Conflicts, telecoupling and successful practices
We would like to invite you to join us in our 2nd digital international conference:
Reversing biodiversity loss – Conflicts, telecoupling and successful practices
4–5 December 2024
During this conference we will use a transdisciplinary approach to address key questions concerning the global challenge of reversing biodiversity loss, such as:
- How can the transformation to a biodiversity-positive world, as called for by the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, actually be achieved by 2030? What examples of best practice are there and what are the most promising approaches?
- What contribution can and should science, politics and business make to achieve this goal? How promising are nature-based solutions in this context?
- What approaches are there for overcoming conflicting goals and avoiding negative effects from telecoupling
Why have this conference? And why now?
Despite many efforts, little progress has been made so far in tackling the biodiversity crisis; the extinction of species continues unabated. The COP-15 in Kunming-Montreal adopted an ambitious post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework in December 2022. Among other things, the contracting states committed to bringing the loss of areas of high biodiversity importance close to zero by 2030, while respecting the rights of Indigenous people (target 1). They also committed to effectively restoring at least 30% of areas of degraded terrestrial, inland water, and coastal and marine ecosystems by 2030 (target 2) – and the remaining targets 3 to 23 are no less ambitious. We live in a complex and highly interconnected world, in which conflicts and telecoupling effects make it difficult to achieve these ambitious goals. But how do we overcome these obstacles and what can we learn from successful practices in order to make this post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework a success?
Join us online!
To allow for a broad transdisciplinary discussion, the conference explicitly invites scientists from all disciplines related to biodiversity, stakeholders from politics, society, economy and the media from around the world. More information on the program and speakers of the event will be available soon on the conference website www.feda.bio/de/intkonf.
We look forward to welcoming you at the conference!
On behalf of the organizing committee,
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Mosbrugger (FEdA Spokesman)
Dr. Julian Taffner (Head of FEdA Central Coordination)
This conference is organized by the BMBF Research Initiative for the Conservation of Biodiversity (Forschungsinitiative zum Erhalt der Artenvielfalt, FEdA), funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).