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WS: Ecosystem Accounting
Time:
Tuesday, 11/Feb/2025:
3:00pm - 4:30pm

 Location: James Cook meeting room

Building 1

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Monitoring Biodiversity with Ecosystem Accounting

Bruno Smets1, Caterina Gilli2, Alessio Bulckaen2, Ferdinando Villa2, Lars Hein3, Marcel Buchhorn1

1VITO, Belgium; 2Basque Center for Climate Change, Spain; 3Wageningen University, Netherlands

The workshop aims to showcase and discuss the role of ecosystem accounting, enabled through Earth Observation (EO) data and advanced modelling technologies, to support biodiversity monitoring frameworks (Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework) and biodiversity applications (EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 actions). The System for Economic Environmental Accounts (SEEA) provides a methodological basis for three headline indicators of the monitoring framework of the KM-GBF, while EO provides a geospatial basis to generate SEEA EA accounts.

Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding in SEEA EA, its use in different policies and the link with biodiversity monitoring using current state-of-art data (Earth Observation) and technologies (modelling and tools). Participants will have the opportunity to share experiences and provide feedback on an ecosystem accounting Research and Development (R&D) roadmap.

The workshop is directed to foster links between experts from different communities: earth observation, modelling, biodiversity and accounting, and will be conducted in English. The audience is expected to have read the R&D roadmap (D19 at https://esa-people-ea.org/en/results/deliverables) prior to the workshop.

The workshop aims to equally distribute its time between presenting concepts (introductory) and experiences (case studies from innovative projects) and discussions (interactions) between the participants. At the end of the workshop several recommendations are expected to be formulated to improve the R&D roadmap to better capture the necessary actions to monitor biodiversity with ecosystem accounts using EO data and innovative modelling and technical solutions. A revision of the R&D roadmap will be conducted thereafter, which acts as an important input for several programs at ESA, EU Horizon and further.