Thematic Tracks

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This track covers sessions related to fundamental scientific biodiversity research, and the relation of biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Sessions can address any level of biological organization, ranging from microbes to plants, animals, selected biomes, etc. Sessions that span across biological levels or spatial and temporal scales and biomes are particularly welcome.

Responsible for this track:
Jeannine Cavender Bares
Xiaojuan Liu
Maria Park

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This track covers sessions with a focus on the development of biodiversity indicators and metrics. Topics ranging from biodiversity measurements (including discussions on in situ (e.g. eDNA) to remote sensing), to the identification and definition of indicators and metrics that can be used to assess, for example the impact of businesses or success of conservation. Session proposals can also address existing data sources, needs, structure, governance and management, and funding related topics, toward a global biodiversity observation and data system.

Responsible for this track:
Fabian Schneider
Alice Hughes

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This track covers sessions with a focus on biodiversity’s contribution to nexus topics which recognizes both how biodiversity impacts and is impacted by interactions between biodiversity, food, health, water and climate. We particularly focus on elements which recognize and articulate biodiversity’s contributions to navigating transitions to healthier and more sustainable food, health, environmental and climate systems with reflections that range from the landscape to planetary scales (e.g. nature based solutions in the broadest sense). We welcome reflections, and more importantly examples on the use of biodiversity in providing lasting solutions (response options) as articulated in a growing number of more systemic approaches such as One Health, Planetary Health, and Agroecology.

Responsible for this track:
Maria Santos
Fabrice de Clerck
Nelly Nambande Masayi

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This track covers sessions that address the future of biodiversity, ecosystems and society. What are desirable futures for biodiversity and people? What would novel ecosystems look like? How can we predict the future of biodiversity and ecosystems? How do we build biodiversity-centric scenarios? What methods are well suited to envision or predict desirable biodiverse futures from social sciences to statistical and process-based models? What are latest innovations, AI- and digital twin-based methods and their prediction capabilities and uncertainties? How can we be inclusive of diverse values, rights and stakeholders in envisioning desirable futures? How can we achieve these futures?

Responsible for this track:
HyeJin Kim
Laura Pereira
Brian W. Miller

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This track covers sessions with a focus of biodiversity and businesses and finance. This includes how to assess biodiversity related risks for business and finance from micro- to macro-level, how to report biodiversity impact and dependency, and how to shift businesses and finance toward practices with biodiversity-positive outcomes and scientifically credible biodiversity markets. What methods and technologies might support these markets (e.g. blockchain)? What are ethical considerations on biodiversity markets?

Responsible for this track:
Oliver Schelske
Zacharias Sautner
Joe Bull
Niak Koh

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This track covers sessions around legal, regulatory and governance issues pertaining to biodiversity, including developments in biodiversity rights, liabilities, international and domestic legal/regulatory/governance frameworks and innovative approaches to using private, public and international legal frameworks and tools. (The track is open to issues engaging public/private law as well as matters of public/private international law and both hard and soft law instruments).

Responsible for this track:
Lynne Shannon
Nina Braude
Alessandro Mazzi

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This track covers sessions that address how nations and societies can achieve the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework targets and what is needed to operationalize transformative change in order to bend the curve of biodiversity loss until 2030. This tracks also includes how to make conservation effective to foster biodiversity for the future at all levels, including genetic, functional, species diversity.

Responsible for this track:
Laetizia Navarro
Maggie Hunter
Rafaella Canessa

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This track covers sessions discussing transformative change and how we can achieve it. What does transformative change mean, what are important elements? What is people's relation to biodiversity and how can people reconnect with nature? What roles can Indigenous Peoples play in supporting/driving transformative change needed for a just and sustainable world?

Responsible for this track:
Lynne Shannon
Markku Oksanen
Timothée Fouqueray

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This track covers sessions that discuss how to connect rights holders and stakeholders across all sectors of society, including science, practice, policy, society, and Indigenous Peoples, to create actionable knowledge to foster biodiversity. Sessions might focus on specific formats of co-production, such as living labs, as a format to connect complex systems and structure, but can also cover topics related to communication and biodiversity. How can all stakeholders most effectively communicate biodiversity science? How to maintain and increase trust and influence of science on biodiversity topics?

Responsible for this track:
Cornelia Krug
Andrea Bandelli
Yvonne Wambui Githiora

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This track covers all arts and culture activities that will happen outside of the regular session and workshop schedule structure (for example over lunch, outside, during reception, dinner etc.) - all other arts and culture components are expected to fit into the general tracks to mix with other disciplines.

Responsible for this track:
Thijs Biersteker
Irène Hediger
Gabriela Schaepman