Join Us In Setting a New Agenda for the Biodiversity Issue

You will have the opportunity to participate in one of over 30 concurrent breakout sessions that will convene on the afternoon of Monday, December 8th to develop a set of recommendations that can guide a new US Administration and others working around the world to conserve biodiversity. This biodiversity agenda will be presented to the next Administration, Congress, and decisionmakers in academia, local and state government, business and in international forums to encourage awareness of and solutions to the challenge of conserving biodiversity in the face of climate change, population growth, globalization, and other rapid changes.

Topics covered will include:
Special Regions, Ecosystems, and Taxonomic Groups: Amphibians, Endangered and Conservation Relient Species, Microbial Diversity, the Arctic, Africa, Freshwater and Marine Environments

Landscapes: Developing (frontiers to metropolis) and Protected Areas, Agricultural Landscapes

Putting Biodiversity on the Political Agenda and Exploring Conservation Policy and Law

Role of States in Conservation

Scaling Biodiversity and Developing Metrics for Prioritizing

Mobilizing the Public and Communicating Biodiversity

Integrating Cultural Diversity and Biological Diversity

Conservation Leadership and Partnerships

Mitigating the Drivers of Biodiversity Loss such as: Population Growth, Energy and Consumption, Invasive Species, Climate Change

Living Institutions and Natural History Collections

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystem Restoration

Making Biological Information Usable

Biodiversity in Education Wildlife Adaptation.

View the Full List of Breakout Sessions