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About COP 16

The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will be held in Cali, Colombia this October 21st until November 1st.

COP16 will be crucial in shaping the global biodiversity agenda and actions for the next decade, particularly in implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. For GEO BON, it is a pivotal moment to highlight the role of biodiversity observation networks in tracking progress toward biodiversity goals. These networks help provide the data necessary for governments to develop and update their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), aligning with global conservation targets.

The theme, “Peace with Nature”, emphasizes the importance of harmonious, sustainable development, highlighting the need for collaboration between countries and networks like GEO BON to integrate biodiversity data into policy-making, ensuring informed decisions that contribute to both ecological and societal well-being.

 

GEO BON at COP 16

This year for the first time, GEO BON will host a shared pavilion together with GEO, Ai2 and Esri under the theme “From Genes to Ecosystems”, which aims to highlight the vast and complex biodiversity of our changing planet. This theme integrates a wide spectrum of biodiversity observation approaches, from satellite imagery to community-based monitoring, addressing the critical need for data and knowledge across scales. The pavilion will host numerous events organized by GEO BON, showcasing activities and tools, including BON in a Box and the EBV Data Ecosystem, that can support biodiversity monitoring and meeting global needs for biodiversity knowledge and informing policy.

Thank you to our pavilion funders Ai2, Esri, GEO, Government of Switzerland, and Maxar.

 

BON in a Box SIDE EVENT

BON in Box as a tool for implementation and reporting on the monitoring framework

When: October 22nd – 11:40am

Where: Nuqui – Academia & Research meeting room (Plaza One)

Assessing progress towards the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) requires collaboration across scales to monitor biodiversity change. Current monitoring efforts and tools are developed by individual actors without being shared across organizations and borders, which can lead to the duplication of effort in some places while others have less resources to allocate to biodiversity reporting. As an existing platform, BON in a Box can provide biodiversity monitoring tools and facilitate coordination and collaboration among countries and data sources (e.g, EBV data portal, GBIF, OBIS). BON in a Box now provides an open-source, fully transparent platform that allows users to contribute data and analysis pipelines to calculate indicators which can then be used for reporting to assess progress towards biodiversity targets. BON in Box can integrate diverse data and expert knowledge, from Earth observation to genetic diversity metrics to calculate monitoring framework indicators. In this side-event, GEO BON and partners will present the tools that are available in BON in a Box, how they are currently being used and applied in countries, and how they can be developed in the future.

Thank you to Cardiff University for sponsoring translation in Spanish, French and Chinese.

Event Schedule

Monday

21

13:15 – 14:45

Updates on the indicator for Target 21.1 on biodiversity information and knowledge

GEO BON Secretariat with IUCN, GBIF, Forest Peoples Programme

15:00 – 16:30

Advancing NBSAP Reporting Using GEO BON’s EBV Data Ecosystem: Live Demonstration and Training

iDiv

16:45 – 18:15

**RESCHEDULED** GBiOS connecting national and regional monitoring

GEO BON Secretariat

Tuesday

22

10:00 – 11:30

Centering biodiversity in United States policy and international partnerships

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, NOAA, Monterey Bay Aquarium

15:00 – 16:30

CSIRO component indicators: planning and monitoring achievement of GBF goals and targets through integration of multiple remotely-sensed and ground-based data

CSIRO

16:45 – 18:15

Putting Biodiversity-Inclusive Spatial Planning on the Map: How Spatial Intelligence is Being Harnessed to Operationalize Target 1 in National Contexts

UNDP

Wednesday

23

10:00 -11:30

Species-focused indicators and decision-support with Map of Life and the Half-Earth Project Map

Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change

15:00 – 16:30

From monitoring to transformative action on inland water ecosystems: why are local communities critical?

FWBON, Humboldt Institute

18:30 – 20:00

BON in Box as a tool for implementation and reporting on the monitoring framework

BON in a Box

Thursday

24

10:00 – 11:30

**NEW TIME ** GBiOS connecting national and regional monitoring

GEO BON Secretariat

11:45 – 13:00

Connecting the dots: Bringing together scientists, policymakers and practitioners to better implement biodiversity indicators

Computational Ecology Research group, Department of Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal

15:00 – 16:30

**CANCELLED** Enriching biodiversity data to accelerate delivery of policy- and indicator-ready data for the GBF

GBIF

Friday

25

10:00 -11:30

Observing biology and ecosystems in the ocean for effective biodiversity conservation

Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO)

11:45 – 13:00

BON in a Box technical overview

BON in a Box

16:45 – 18:15

Genetic diversity indicator and implementation (in Spanish)

Consortium for Conservation Genomics, GEO BON Genetic Composition WG, IUCN SSG Conservation Genetics

11:45 – 13:00

Meeting the needs of subnational governments for biodiversity assessment

Center for Applied Research on Biodiversity and Ecosystems

15:00 – 16:30

A Multidimensional Biodiversity Index for Colombia – Pilot results

Humboldt Institute

Wednesday

30

15:00 – 16:30

APBON– Biodiversity in the Asia-Pacific