Biodiversity in the 21st century: Are we missing the target?

Start/Finish date: 9th November 2010 18.00 – 20.30

Location: British Library, 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB

Member Price: £0.00

Non-Member Price: £0.00

Event type: Seminar

Event Summary

Professor Georgina Mace CBE FRS is Professor of Conservation Science and director of the NERC Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College London. She was instrumental in developing the IUCN Red List, and has research interests that include assessment of species extinction risk, biodiversity assessment, and the impact of climate change on biodiversity.

Event description

• Is there a biodiversity crisis and why are biodiversity targets important?

• How can we make meaningful biodiversity targets for the coming decades in the face of climate change?

• What role can biodiversity targets play in the protection of ecosystem services?

• Does the economic valuation of ecosystems services help to preserve biodiversity?

• How might the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services affect the future of global biodiversity?

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