The registration is now open for the ‘GEO BON Global Conference: Monitoring Biodiversity for Action’, which is to be held in Montreal, Canada, from 10-13 October 2023. Register for the event by 25 September 2023.

It is an in-person conference with plenaries streamed on YouTube. The programme will include a series of sessions, workshops, panel discussions, and fireside chats. The conference is meant to be a convening place for all sectors of society to discuss the implementation of the new Global Biodiversity Framework through the lens of participatory biodiversity monitoring based on new technologies and traditional approaches, all with the purpose of informing decision-making for biodiversity conservation and its sustainable use towards the vision of ‘Living in Harmony with Nature’. This conference is organised by GEO BON in partnership with the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, with support from local and international organisations.

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;
• Standardised eDNA-based biodiversity monitoring to inform environmental stewardship programmes;
• 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 modelling 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?

GEO Mountains will be presenting during the session on Ten years of Essential Biodiversity Variables: How are we calculating them?

Event registration deadline: 25 September 2023.

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