Conference Agenda

Aim: As we find ourselves at a critical juncture, ever closer to global tipping points, this panel aims to identify key strategies for long-term biodiversity and land use policies that may be in line with current and future climate policies.

Gone are the days in which climate change and carbon policies sat as distinct from those on biodiversity, once the remit only of conservationists, zoologists, and botanists.

Policymakers and researchers alike, building on the recent COP and Biodiversity conferences, have turned their attention towards policy mechanisms that seek to support both the climate and nature. From healthcare to urban planning, offsets to indigenous rights, and climate change to nutrition, land use and biodiversity are increasingly recognised for their centrality to the most pressing environmental and social issues.

However, despite this recognition, activities and policies such as critical raw material extraction, carbon offsets, agricultural expansion, and urbanisation are putting ecosystems and communities at risk.

Integrated policy approaches, therefore, come with the responsibility to tackle head-on the complexity that underpins truly equitable and sustainable policies, in the face of tipping points in land use, global temperatures, and species extinction.

The proposed session will examine how to combine the urgent need to fight climate change with the longevity and equity of biodiversity and land use policy.

The session is organised by the World Council of Environmental and Resource Economists Association, and in collaboration with the other world associations of environmental and resource economists (AAERE, AERE, AFAERE, LAERE, AARES). Similar sessions on the same topic will take place in the Annual Conferences of all the associations listed above. This will provide a global view on what makes climate, biodiversity and land use policy most effective, for as many as possible, and for as long as possible.

Chair: Simone Borghesi (EAERE President, European University Institute and University of Siena)

Speakers:

Ben Groom, University of Exeter and Dragon Capital Chair in Biodiversity Economics

Gianni Guastella, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore & Deloitte Italy

Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business, Denmark Technical University

Ruslana Rachel Palatnik, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College and NRERC- Natural Resource and Environmental Research Center, University of Haifa