Saving Biodiversity and Climate

– How Academia and Society Navigate Policy Processes

Room: Hemerycksalen
Time: 8.30-10.30

Session chairs: Dr. Juliana Dänhardt (BECC and LU Land at Lund University), Dr. Josefin Madjidian (BECC and profile area Nature-based Future Solutions at Lund University), Prof. Björn-Ola Linnér (Linköping University), Dr. Jenny Klingberg (GGBC at University of Gothenburg)

Two of the world’s most urgent crises are climate change and loss of biodiversity. These crises not only affect each other but also constitute critical aspects leading to other emergencies such as poverty, migration, health, and justice. The main driving factor for both is land-use, but measures suggested to solve one of the crises are often counteracting the other. Therefore, joint handling of both crises is of utter importance, including finding ways to balance goal conflicts, exploring synergies and, when this is not possible, developing tools to enable evidence-based prioritizations of one goal over the other.

In this session, we have invited high-level policy-makers and experts who will delve into how international laws and directives related to biodiversity and climate, are negotiated from a Swedish perspective, and how these in turn are implemented into Swedish policy. We will discuss the challenges encountered during this process at different policy levels, and how research and society can collaborate to make this work successful.