21.06.2024
Under the theme ‘From Science to Action’, the third World Biodiversity Forum (WBF) brings together researchers across all disciplines of biodiversity science with practitioners and societal actors to explore how to move from science to actions and solutions, to conserve biodiversity and set us on a path towards transformation for sustainability.
The World Biodiversity Forum 2024 responds to the call for urgent and transformative action to halt and reverse biodiversity loss through making connections across available knowledge sources, identifying opportunities, synergies, but also trade-offs that can inform policies and actions. It will further develop narratives, pathways, and visions of sustainable futures and highlight avenues to achieve change.
The third World Biodiversity Forum WBF will be held as an in-person event, from 16-20 June 2024 at the Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland. The WBF will be preceded by a day of workshops, training sessions, and networking meetings on 16 June 2024, followed by excursions in the beautiful surroundings of Davos and its mountains on Friday 21 June 2024.
Key Dates and Deadlines
- Call for organised sessions: 3 May 2023
- Deadline session submissions: 2 July 2023
- Call for abstract submissions: 4 September 2023
- Deadline abstract submission: 19 November 2023
- Early bird registration opens: December 2023
- Presenter registration deadline: 14 February 2024
- WBF 2024 workshops, training, etc.: 16 June 2024
- WBF 2024 parallel sessions, plenaries: 17-20 June 2024
- WBF 2024 excursions: 21 June 2024
Call For Sessions
Those interested are invited to submit proposals for sessions, workshops, training sessions, or panel discussions. The deadline for submitting a session proposal is 2 July 2023. Submit your session proposal here.
Session & Contribution Themes
Researchers, practitioners, policy- and decision-makers and actors from different sectors such as business and finance, agriculture and others as well as indigenous people are invited to submit contributions on the following themes:
- Biodiversity, functional diversity, and ecosystem function;
- Soil biodiversity and function;
- Genetic diversity and evolution;
- Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity;
- Ecosystem services and nature’s contributions to people;
- Biodiversity, human well-being, and (sustainable) development;
- Multiple values and diverse knowledge systems (incl. Indigenous Knowledge);
- Human-nature relationships and bio-cultural diversity;
- Philosophy and ethics;
- Monitoring and modelling of biodiversity and ecosystem (change);
- Biodiversity (loss) and climate (change);
- Economics, finance, and innovative financing of biodiversity-related actions;
- Governance, policy, and Integrated approaches for socio-ecological resilience;
- Narratives and future visions;
- Science communication;
- Urban and landscape planning;
- Agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, and fisheries;
- Agroecology and agroforestry;
- Renewable energy production;
- UN treaties (water, plastics, marine);
- Other.
For more information, please contact Anja Schilling and Cornelia Krug at info@worldbiodiversityforum2024.org.
Cover image by Raphael Gosteli.