Grand Seminar - Implementing international agreements on biodiversity in Sweden

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. 

Preliminary programme

10:30 – 11:00 Fika 
11:00 – 11:10 Welcome
11:10 – 11:45 Insights from the Swedish implementation process 
Malte Timpte, Naturvårdsverket 
11:45 – 12:30 How to achieve goals: Knowledge demands and opportunities for collaboration TBD
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 13:50 The role of science in policy processes
Henrik Smith, Lund University 
13:50 – 14:45 Inspiration from other countries (Finland / Denmark)
14:45 – 15:50  Workshop/discussion on future knowledge needs – research and synthesis
15:50 – 16:00 Conclusions and ways forward
16:00 – 16:30 Fika & mingle
 

Please register in the link below before 25 November.

Registration to Grand seminar: Implementing International Agreements on Biodiversity in Sweden | BECC
 

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.

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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. 

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