November 2019
Twenty-third meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-23)
Article 25 of the Convention on Biological Diversity establishes an open-ended intergovernmental scientific advisory body known as the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) to provide the…
Find out more »SAGES’19 Global Climate Challenges for a Blue Green Economy: scientific evidence; its relevance; societal solutions.
Practical solutions to challenges posed by global anthropogenic climate change are non-global: in national and regional regulatory frameworks, in devolved implementation of policy, in behavioural acceptance and desire for change,…
Find out more »February 2020
Second meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
(Scotland to be represented in UK delegation)
Find out more »March 2020
Celebrating Scotland’s Nature – prelude to international Thematic Workshop
(details to be posted)
Find out more »April 2020
Thematic Workshop for Subnational and Regional Governments in RBGE, giving rise to the ‘Edinburgh Declaration’
(details to be posted shortly)
Find out more »Scottish Ecology, Environment and Conservation Conference 2020
What will Scotland's future look like in 5, 10, 50 or 200 years? How will the environment change? How do we want it to change? How will Brexit and other new policies…
Find out more »May 2020
Twenty-fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice
(details to follow)
Find out more »June 2020
SPNHC ICOM NatHist (University, NMS and RBGE)
The joint meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) and the International Council of Museums Committee for Museums and Collections of Natural History (ICOM NATHIST)…
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The use of science and medicine to address conservation challenges in the field and inform management decisions through the application of novel ideas, new technologies, or big data.
Supporting the development of evidence-based sustainable conservation policies through the production and analysis of research data.
Offering education and professional development to empower current and future generations of conservation scientists.