Thursday at 1 pm!

Host: Christian Ristok (EIE)

Helmut Hillebrand, Professor for Plankton Ecology and Director of the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven (Germany)

Title: "Biotic interactions, metacommunities and ecosystem functioning at the land-sea interface Or: How I learned to embrace unexplained variances"

Join this special panel discussion, jointly hosted by iDiv, the University of Leipzig, and CAPAZ, focusing on the intersection of science and indigenous knowledge and Article 8(J) for biodiversity protection following COP16.

Real-time translation: English-Spanish

Register here: forms.gle/rDCbBTcns9WTc9et5

Host: European Topic Centre Biodiversity and Ecosystems (ETC BE)

Thorjørn Larssen, Deputy Managing Director of The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Oslo (Norway) - Introduction

Piero Visconti, Research Group Leader and Principal Research Scholar at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg (Austria)

Title: "Approaches to identify terrestrial priority areas for achieving the 30% and 10% protection target in the EU"

Henrique Pereira, Professor at iDiv & MLU and Head of the Biodiversity Conservation research group, Leipzig (Germany)

Title: "State of Nature: taking the pulse of biodiversity in Europe"

Samuli Korpinen, Research manager at Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki (Finland)

Title: "Status and trends of the marine environment"

Jeanette Völker, Head of unit II 2.4 Inland Waters at German Environment Agency, Dessau (Germany)

Title: "Status and trends of the freshwater environment"