From Nature Crisis to Solutions: Norway's road to the Nature Deal (seminar 1)
In CeSAM's interdisciplinary seminar series 2024-2025, we tackle big and small questions at the intersection between nature and politics. We take the Norwegian perspective as our starting point and put an interdisciplinary spotlight on Norway's implementation of the nature agreement. All welcome!
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Seminar 1:
Introduction to CeSAM's seminar series Nature and Politics
with a 'primer' to the global nature agreement and how it is rolled out in Norway
by Vigdis Vandvik
In September 2024, the Norwegian government delivered Norway's new action plan for biodiversity. It is Norway's answer to the global nature deal, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM GBF), and describes how the government's policy will contribute to the sustainable use and conservation of natural diversity.
What does this new action plan actually contain? Will Norway’s plan make it possible for us to deliver on the ambitions of the KM GBF? Why (not)? What can we expect in the future, and what requires continued work and attention?
The delivery came just in time for COP16 in Cali, Colombia, the first meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) after the global nature agreement was signed in 2022.
In Cali, the countries were to present their action plans. But so far only 25 out of 190 countries have delivered.
CeSAM welcomes you to our seminar series where we will explore the Norwegian action plan for biodiversity - Sustainable use and conservation of nature from our different disciplinary perspectives.
In this first seminar, Vigdis Vandvik will give an overview of both the political and the 'natural' background for the nature agreement. We will then give an overview of the perspectives that will be presented later in the seminar series, and discuss the aims of the seminar series.
This seminar will be in English.
