The Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity of its fifteenth meeting (COP15) will take place on 7-19th of December, in Montreal. The meeting will finalize and adopt the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, which will become the leading document on how to preserve and sustainably use biodiversity for governments worldwide.  

We invite you to a joint BECC and LU Land Grand Seminar where we will listen to experts in different fields connected to biodiversity, decision-making, and possibilities for implementing such a framework. 

Expect talks that will give you insight in the Convention on Biological Diversity, the status of species loss and ecosystem health, the Swedish government’s stance ahead of the meeting, monetizing nature’s contribution to people, and the issue of fairness related to implementation of the framework, while also discussing what can be learnt from UNFCCC’s COP-processes. 

After the presentations follows an on-site workshop for interested participants, focusing on future collaboration between universities and society, on the seminar's topic. Urgent action will be needed to jumpstart its implementation at the scale that the current loss of biodiversity requires. 

Place: Pufendorf institute (stora hörsalen), Biskopsgatan 3, Lund 

Date and time: 25th of November at 10-15 (with lunch) 
 

Last day to register 21 November

Register for BECC Grand Seminar
 

Program

Moderator: Fariborz Zelli (Professor at the Department of Political Science, Lund University).

9.30-10:00: Coffee 

10.00: Welcome   

10.05-10.20: State of biodiversity and the Road to a post-2020 global biodiversity framework

Maria Blasi Romero (Researcher at Centre for Environmental Science, Lund University)

10.30-10.40: Monetizing nature´s contribution to people 

Susanne Arvidsson (Docent at the School of Economics, Lund University) 

10.40-11.10: Discussion

Leg stretch

11.20-11.30: A fairness perspective on adoption and implementation of global frameworks  

Aysegül Sirakaya (Researcher at the Department of Law, Lund University)

11.30-11.40: Learning from climate policy negotiations

Thomas Hickmann (Associate senior lecturer, Department of Political Science, Lund University)

11.40-12.15: Chaired discussion with the audience

12.15-13.00: Lunch  

13.00-15.00: Workshop (onsite and online)

Future collaboration between research and society regarding implementation of the framework. 

Inspirational talk: Cecilia Lindblad (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, former IPBES contact point)

15.00: End