Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and the Nature Positive Journey

  Recording available. When: JANUARY 25th 2024 Time: 09:00 to 10:15 AM EST (03:00 to 04:14 PM CET)   Nature is the basis of the functioning of society, general well-being, and the economy. However, despite warnings from the scientific community for several decades, the degradation of nature is accelerating due to

GEO BON has a new Executive Secretary! Welcome Katie Millette 

As the incoming Executive Secretary, I am excited to continue the momentum that GEO BON has generated over its three years in Montreal. I have been lucky to have learned from Adriana Radulovici—our departing Executive Secretary—over the two years I spent as GEO BON’s Science Officer. I am very happy

EcoCode – Modelling Life on Earth

The EcoCode working group aims to synthesize, integrate and advance modelling efforts in support of the GEO-BON mission and to push for an international effort to project biodiversity responses to environmental changes…

GEO BON at COP 15

The second part of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 10), Fourth meeting

GEO BON welcomes Veronica Wrobel as Communications and Engagement Officer

I am a firm believer that communicating science effectively is just as important as research itself. I am therefore very excited to be joining the GEO BON team as communications and engagement officer and be able to contribute to its mission of promoting biodiversity science and conservation worldwide. My background

Webinars on Genetic diversity – 26 July 2021

Download compiled presentations here. Watch the recording on the GEO BON YouTube channel. Agenda Time (ET) Topic Speaker Affiliation 9:00-9:10 Introduction Jillian Campbell Convention on Biological Diversity 9:10-9:20 Why genetic diversity is important, and fundamental concepts including Ne (effective size) Linda Laikre Stockholm University (Sweden) 9:20-9:30 Explaining genetic diversity indicators

Webinars on Species Populations and Area-based Conservation – 12 July 2021

Download compiled presentations here. Watch the recording on the GEO BON YouTube channel. Agenda Time (ET) Topic Speaker Affiliation 9:00-9:05 Introduction Jillian Campbell Convention on Biological Diversity 9:05-9:50 Species Population Essential Biodiversity Variables Melodie McGeoch La Trobe University (Australia) Indicator policy relevance, calculation, adaptation, and use Walter Jetz Yale University