The World Biodiversity Forum WBF is organized by the University of Zurich, supported by an international scientific committee and partners.
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24 Apr 2025
🌿🌍 Save the date! The 4th edition of the World Biodiversity Forum WBF2026 will take place from 14-19 June 2026 in ☀️Davos. Check out our new website on buff.ly/a5uJHGS and sign up for WBF News. Follow us on bluesky (use worldbioforum as handle) for future WBF News.
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«Die #Wissenschaft sieht #politischen #Handlungsbedarf bei der #Biodiversität»
CarteBlanche @scnatCH von @loic_pellissier, @mjsantos_uzh und mir:
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1/3: Zustand & Entwicklung der Biodiversität in der 🇨🇭 sind nach wie vor besorgniserregend.
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28 Jun 2024
🌍🌿 Thank you for an incredible World Biodiversity Forum 2024! Let’s keep moving together with the critical mass we have achieved and all the new insights and inspiration generated! See you in 2026!
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27 Jun 2024
🌍🌿⛈️ Windy, rainy, stormy... but an adventure!
If you weren't able to take part in one of the excursions at World Biodiversity Forum in ☀️ Davos, you can enjoy a few of our impressions here:
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26 Jun 2024
🌍🌿 The World Biodiversity Forum 2024 has been an exciting week for all of us!
Explore a few impressions from the conference and discover more on our gallery website: buff.ly/3W8GncB
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25 Jun 2024
🌍🌿 Key Messages from WBF2024:
1. Need for mainstreaming of knowledge
2. Recognition of the role of indigenous people
3. Collaborations key to initiating change
4. Need for evidence-based aligned policy
5. Addressing consumption and production
6. Addressing societal drivers
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25 Jun 2024
🌍🌿 Big thanks to all participants for making the World Biodiversity Forum 2024 such a success! Let’s keep moving from Science to Action and share the resolution buff.ly/3L15De4
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Insightful, biodiverse & highly interactive week @WorldBioForum in Davos.
Happy to have met many friends & colleagues and to many new contacts!
Exciting science, transdisciplinarity, #biodiversity. 🌳🏞️🧬🐟🔬🦟🏃♂️🐞🦫🌈
Thanks to the organizers for a very effective conference!
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Celebrating success at the @WorldBioForum! 🌟
@IPBES Chair @dobura recognizing that the hard work and dedication of the entire IPBES community made the @BluePlanetPrize award possible.🌍🏆
A big thank you to all our contributors! 🎉
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20 Jun 2024
It was a great moment at the #WBF2024 conference dinner announcing the prize, realizing how many #IPBES participants we were! And I only know some!
And by the topics at the conference, we'll welcome many new authors and participants in the future!!
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19 Jun 2024
The @BluePlanetPrize is such wonderful recognition of the work of the 1000s of contributors, and the amazing support staff, who have built @IPBES's outputs and reputation to receive the .
It goes to all of you!!
For people and planet!!
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18 Jun 2024
The third @WorldBioForum, organised by UZH, is taking place in Davos this week. 🌍🌿 In this interview, UZH earth system scientists @mjsantos_uzh and @GabrielaSchaep1 explain how biodiversity and climate change influence each other: news.uzh.ch/en/articles/news…
ALT Three people are planting young trees in a dry, sandy environment. To the right, a large machine helps with the digging. Text: "Climate change and biodiversity are closely connected"
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20 Jun 2024
🌍🌿🎙️ Biodiversity: How Research Influences Political Processes
Anne Kempel, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub and Josef Settele discuss with Deutschlandfunk how scientific findings shape political decisions and policies.
📺 Listen to the full interview here: buff.ly/45wdf1E
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20 Jun 2024
Glad to see this connection been highlighted!! This does not get enough attention in the media.
20 Jun 2024
🌍🌿🎤 "Climate change and biodiversity are closely connected”
Maria J. Santos and Gabriela Schaepman-Strub explain how biodiversity and climate change influence each other and what needs to be done to overcome the climate and biodiversity crisis: buff.ly/3VyfLA1
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20 Jun 2024
🌍🌿🎤 "Climate change and biodiversity are closely connected”
Maria J. Santos and Gabriela Schaepman-Strub explain how biodiversity and climate change influence each other and what needs to be done to overcome the climate and biodiversity crisis: buff.ly/3VyfLA1
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20 Jun 2024
🌍🌿🎙️ World Biodiversity Forum: "Too little is being done in politics"
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub and Cornelia Krug in an interview with Daniel Sager about the third World Biodiversity Forum.
📺 Listen to the full interview on SRF! [buff.ly/4cvOFQL ]
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19 Jun 2024
Don't miss our take 2 tmrw on "Knowledge gaps & research avenues to leverage NbS as a tool to mitigate & adapt to climate change" @WorldBioForum #WBF2024
I'll be presenting too, so see you there! 😊
09.00-11.00 👉 wbf2024.abstractserver.com/p…
11.30-13.00 👉 wbf2024.abstractserver.com/p…
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19 Jun 2024
"It’s a problem for all forms of biodiversity, globally. Could #ScotlandsRainforest be an example to help show the way forward...?"
@JamesHuttonInst @WorldBioForum
buff.ly/4c6ESAX #WBF2024
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World Biodiversity Forum retweeted
19 Jun 2024
At the Davos @WorldBioForum #WBF2024, discussing models for spatial conservation under climate change. A cautionary note: political actors may rush decisions to appear favorable. But hasty decisions can be costly and result in missed opportunities for more effective policies.
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19 Jun 2024
Tackling #biodiversity 🐞🦗🌿 loss is a great #societal #challenge. How do we move from #science to #action?
Today the session "#ConservationScience, #policy and #diplomacy: Notes from the trenches of #transdisciplinary #research" takes place at @WorldBioForum in Davos🇨🇭
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