A Nordic Framework for Implementation of the COP-15 Biodiversity Targets in Policy
Main funder
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 76 232,50
Funding program
Project timetable
Project start date: 01/02/2024
Project end date: 31/12/2024
Summary
The project addresses one of the most pressing issues of our times, the rapid loss of biodiversity, and measures to halt this process and restore disturbed ecosystems. The project will focus on the biodiversity framework resulting from the agreement that was adopted at the 15th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity attended by all the Nordic countries. This framework contains visionary global targets to be achieved by 2030 and 2050 to safeguard biodiversity. Now the task is to move from agreement to implementation, or from talk to policy. This is a challenge that requires careful science-based policy grounded in knowledge of local and regional ecosystems and biodiversity challenges, as well as transnational and transdisciplinary collaboration. These targets are supported by the EU’s biodiversity strategy which aims to put Europe's biodiversity on a path to recovery by 2030 and contains specific actions and commitments.
In this project, we propose the establishment of a Nordic collaboration platform to compile existing knowledge about biodiversity issues in the Nordic Region in order to work with Nordic governments on translating the scientific knowledge into practical policy. The project is initiated by the Icelandic partner and hosted by the Icelandic Museum of Natural History and it will work closely with institutions in Denmark and Finland. The differences in ecosystems between these countries and the differences in conservation policies gives the project the diversity that creates synergy and enables us to learn from each other in order to identify leading practices with the aim of establishing a close collaboration between scientists and policy-makers across the Nordic Region on the path to recovery by 2030 for the benefit of ecosystems, people, climate and the planet.
In this project, we propose the establishment of a Nordic collaboration platform to compile existing knowledge about biodiversity issues in the Nordic Region in order to work with Nordic governments on translating the scientific knowledge into practical policy. The project is initiated by the Icelandic partner and hosted by the Icelandic Museum of Natural History and it will work closely with institutions in Denmark and Finland. The differences in ecosystems between these countries and the differences in conservation policies gives the project the diversity that creates synergy and enables us to learn from each other in order to identify leading practices with the aim of establishing a close collaboration between scientists and policy-makers across the Nordic Region on the path to recovery by 2030 for the benefit of ecosystems, people, climate and the planet.
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Follow-up groups
Profiling area: School of Resource Wisdom (University of Jyväskylä JYU) JYU.Wisdom
