🌍 Happy UN Biodiversity #BiodiversityDay2024! We’re thrilled to announce the rollout of Discourse: GEO BON's new platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing. Discourse is designed to help you connect with fellow GEO BON members, engage in meaningful discussions, and #BePartOfThePlan!✨ To ensure a smooth process, we're rolling it out one network at a time. Keep an eye on your inbox for your invite 📩 Not a GEO BON member yet? Sign up now to join our community and make a difference in biodiversity monitoring and conservation 👉 https://lnkd.in/dnuS4VCV #BiodiversityDay #BiodiversityMonitoring #BiodiversityConservation #GBiOS
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A global network of experts working together to understand biodiversity change
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GEO BON is a flagship of GEO, The Group on Earth Observations. Within the GEO family, GEO BON represents biodiversity, one of GEO’s nine Societal-Benefit-Areas. GEO BON is a continuously growing network with now more than 3,000 members from 146 different countries, including scientists, managers and practitioners active in biodiversity observation.
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- 2008
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📢 Check out our latest NEWSLETTER with updates from the GEO BON secretariat and our network, upcoming events & exciting opportunities! 📰 👉 https://lnkd.in/e9pT35Jq Become a GEO BON member and join our global network 👉 https://lnkd.in/dnuS4VCV #GEOBON #BiodiversityNews
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🚨 NEW WEBINAR on "Advancing interoperability for ecosystem services within & beyond GEO BON" organised by the Ecosystem Services Working Group. 👉 Register now: https://lnkd.in/eX7kZ46M 🌐 While the literature around ecosystem services (ES) continues to grow rapidly, knowledge from this body of evidence is rarely reused in an efficient and comprehensive way. A major reason for this is the currently limited state of interoperability of ES data, models, and software. The FAIR Principles, a recent reformulation of long-standing open science goals, highlight the importance of making scientific knowledge Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. Building on recent examples from major international initiatives for ES (GEO BON, IPBES, SEEA), will discuss strategies to address interoperability. Individuals and organizations alike can play critical roles on the path toward widespread interoperability and reusability of ES science. 📅 When: July 11th, 2024 🕒 Time: 08:30 - 09:30 AM EST 🎤 Speakers: 🔹 Dr. Ken Bagstad - U.S. Geological Survey, USA 🔹 Flavio Affinito - McGill University, Canada 🔹Jean-Michel Lord, B. Ing., PSM I - GEO BON, Canada 🎙 Hosts: Sofia Vaz - Natural Business Intelligence, Portugal Nuria Pistón - University of Granada, Spain Agnes Vari - McGill University, Canada Flavio Affinito - McGill University, Canada More information here: https://lnkd.in/eHBnffB6
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Do you care about fungi conservation? Do you want to know more about the process of Red Listing for Fungi? Join the FUNACTION consortium, the Global Center for Species Survival and the IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group for the webinar “Red Listing for Fungi”. Renowned invited speakers Dr. James Westrip and Prof. Anders Dahlberg will give an introduction to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and dive into the specificities of Red Listing for Fungi. Red Listing for Fungi | Friday 28 June 2024 | 14:00 UTC Registration: https://lnkd.in/evTt5USN We look forward to seeing you!
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CONGRATULATIONS to Andrew Gonzalez (GEO BON's co-chair) for being selected as co-chair of the IPBES #MonitoringAssessment! Our community of GEO BON experts looks forward to contributing to the effort! Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay! 🌎 🌿
📢 BREAKING Professors Alvaro D’Antona, Andrew Gonzalez, and Patricia Miloslavich have been selected to lead the IPBES #MonitoringAssessment as Co-chairs. Our warm congratulations to them all on #WorldEnvironmentDay! Read more: https://lnkd.in/esXgi_vj
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Watch the full UN Biodiversity #BiodiversityBeat interview with our co-chair Andrew Gonzalez and learn more about: - the #KMGBF Monitoring Framework - binary indicators - the role of GEO BON within the science community and - why we need for a Global Biodiversity Observing System #GBiOS
"The Monitoring Framework is this essential piece of the overarching Global Biodiversity Framework, which is vital to the process of assessing progress towards the goals and targets." At the Nairobi Meetings, UN Biodiversity's David Ainsworth spoke to GEO BON's Andrew Gonzalez. Watch the full #BiodiversityBeat interview: https://lnkd.in/eST-Y7C8
Biodiversity Beat: Nairobi Meetings 2024 - Professor Andy Gonzalez - 20 May 2024
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SOMETHING BIG IS COMING SOON! 👀 As we approach the UN Biodiversity #BiodiversityDay2024, we're thrilled to share that something special is coming your way! Soon, you'll have a new way to connect, share, and collaborate within the GEO BON community across the globe 🌍 Get ready to #BePartOfThePlan and join us in enhancing biodiversity monitoring and conservation efforts. Stay tuned for the big news that will bring the GEO BON community closer than ever before! ✨ LAUNCHING MAY 22nd! ✨
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Satellite Earth observations play a critical role in supporting the Essential Biodiversity Variables. Learn more about the work of CEOS and GEO BON to support this critical topic: https://lnkd.in/eTGzHBbd #Biodiversity #satellitedata
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SIDE EVENT at UN Biodiversity #SBSTTA26: 🌍 Strengthening national biodiversity monitoring systems for enhanced implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework 🌍 Organised in partnership with UNEP-WCMC and others, with support provided by the Government of Germany, this side event will provide an overview of the national capacity needs for the implementation of the monitoring framework, conveyed by Parties in response to the survey circulated by UNEP-WCMC, and enable an open discussion with speakers in a round table dialogue session. Parties to the CBD will share their reflections on the strengths and challenges in monitoring and on the implementation of the #KMGBF. 🛠 Panelists will present current initiatives and tools (BON in a Box) to address these needs. 📅 May 18th, 13:15 📍 Room CR-9-Africa (second floor) Event page 👉 https://lnkd.in/e3HeqV8Y International Climate Initiative, South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme, ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, NBSAP Accelerator Partnership
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GEO BON is represented at #SBSTTA26 by our co-chair Andrew Gonzalez Complete meeting details and documents can be found on the SBSTTA-26 meeting page: https://lnkd.in/eGAczraZ
Liber Ero Chair in Biodiversity Conservation, McGill U | co-director QCBS | Co-Chair GEO BON | Co-Chair IPBES assessment on biodiversity monitoring | co-founder Habitat
Today, I am in Nairobi where I am proud to represent GEO BON at the 26th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) of UN Biodiversity. SBSTTA is a body of the convention that advises the biodiversity COP on science, technology and methodologies. More than 1400 delegates from 150 countries are here for the meeting. This week is particularly focused on what is called the monitoring framework – a set of indicators and guidelines stating how countries can track and report their progress toward the goals and targets of the landmark agreement for biodiversity negotiated at COP15 in Montreal in December 2022. I gave a statement during the plenary session this morning about how GEO BON’s international network of 3000 experts spanning 147 countries can support Parties of the UN CBD with the development of their national biodiversity monitoring schemes. So many countries lack the resources and capacity to monitor different facets of biodiversity (from species to ecosystems) at the scales required to implement the monitoring framework. This is a major inequity in the system; a data divide that threatens the ambition of the framework. I pointed to the blueprint we published for assembling an international network–a Global Biodiversity Observing System (GBiOS) – designed to track trends in biodiversity worldwide. There is a critical need for an international mechanism that supports and funds coordination of biodiversity monitoring within countries and cooperation among countries. I argued that international coordination of biodiversity observations could accelerate the collection of data needed to fill geographic gaps and lower the barriers to the access and use of biodiversity data and knowledge. A powerful comparison is the worldwide monitoring of climate and weather by a Global Observing System that provides continuous and reliable climate data worldwide to support the work of UNFCCC and IPCC. The forecast your weather app offers is only possible because hundreds of millions of observations are gathered and shared daily by many countries. A global biodiversity observing system can be designed to support the work of all the Parties of UN CBD so that no country is left behind in the dash to develop biodiversity monitoring capacity. International coordination of biodiversity observations would lower the barriers to the collection, access, and use of biodiversity data and knowledge. If built, GBiOS will be a global public good – a grand international project, like the CERN accelerator, or the James Webb telescope - that will allow us to see the "tree of life" in unprecedented detail and guide action to slow the irreversible loss of its leaves and branches. For more info on GBiOS: https://lnkd.in/e5Ev2fA8
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