Only by freely exchanging scientific ideas, the results of scientific research and scientists are we able to make progress in scientific understanding of the social and natural world and hence to contribute to a better global society and planet.
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Science has always been based on the idea and ideal of free exchange of information, results, scientists and students. The Forum will address these challenges and discuss how life science universities can and do develop their education, research and innovation programmes and their engagement with society to contribute to the achievement of the EU Biodiversity Strategy and the wider global agenda as formulated by the IPBES and the IPCC.
The need being to focus on developing land and water use systems so as to bend the curve against further biodiversity loss. The EU Biodiversity Strategy focuses on nature-based solutions to protect and restore nature. The achievements of the strategy’s ambitions are linked in part to the EU Farm to Fork Strategy (another strand of the European Green Deal). It picks up on one strand of the European Green Deal – protecting nature. The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, published in 2020, aims to “bring nature back into our lives”. It stresses the need for biodiversity loss and climate change to be dealt together if the global climate and environmental ambitions are to be achieved. The report suggests that the research community dedicated to investigating the climate system is somewhat, but not completely, distinct from that which studies biodiversity. The IPBES and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) in their joint Workshop Report Biodiversity and Climate Change (2021) recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are interconnected in both scientific and policy-making circles, but in practice they are largely addressed separately. Nature 585, 551) stress the need for an integrated strategy to bend the curve of terrestrial biodiversity decline and to reverse the global terrestrial biodiversity decline. The authors of the Nature paper (Leclère D, Obersteiner M, et alia. The urgency to address the biodiversity crisis is increasingly visible on the global environmental agenda and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) plays a major role in articulating this. In the words of Philipp Blom at the recent BOKU Featuring Future Conference 2022: we all live in a thin membrane encircling the globe and in that thin membrane all the species including us humans are interdependent.īiodiversity is one part of the triangulation of challenges facing humanity, the other challenges being to feed an ever increasing world population and to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.
A Forum Fociīiodiversity loss is increasingly recognized as one of the most pressing challenges of our times as it threatens our own survival.
On Thursday “ Bending the Curve for Biodiversity” and on Friday morning “ Knowledge Security”. This Forum will address two themes as outlined in paragraph A. This annual ICA Forum for Rectors, Deans and senior management of agricultural and life science universities in Europe aims to provide these university decision makers from ICA's member universities with the opportunity to meet, to discuss current issues in the agricultural and life sciences and to exchange views on issues with relevant stakeholders in industry, government and NGOs. To be held on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 October 2022Īt the Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy, Lithuaniaĭownload the Forum flyer The goal of the ICA's Rectors and Deans Forums Association for European Life Science Universities (ICA) Bending the Curve for Biodiversity: challenges and opportunities for life science universities
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