MdM Open session on IPBES Global Assessment with Sandra Díaz

Sandra Díaz, Professor of Ecology at Córdoba National University and co-chair of the Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, will be participating in an open session at ICTA-UAB. The session will start with a short introduction to the IPBES Global Assessment by Dr Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares (IPBES fellow based at ICTA-UAB) and then an open space for discussion with questions from participants.
The event can be also follow by Zoom (link below)

MdM Open session on IPBES Global Assessment 

Speaker: Sandra Díaz, Professor of Ecology at Córdoba National University and co-chair of the Global Assessment of the IPBES

Date: Thursday, November 10^th 2022 
Time: From 15 to 16,30 h 
Venue: Sala Antoni Rosell (Z/022 - Z/023) ICTA-UAB & online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89399418430?pwd=SUdMVFR2NEZnaTFrVVdwWGlvTTFMUT09 
  

BIOGRAPHY   

Sandra Díaz is Professor of Ecology at Córdoba National University, senior member of the Argentine National Research Council and Visiting Professor at the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University.  She is interested in plant functional traits and syndromes, their effects on ecosystem properties and their interactions with global change drivers. She constructed the first global quantitative picture of essential functional diversity of vascular plants –the global spectrum of plant form and function.  She has advanced theory and practical implementation of the concept of functional diversity and its effects on ecosystem properties and benefits. She is one of the top 1% most cited scientists in the world and was listed as one of the ten people who mattered in science in 2019 by the journal Nature in their end of year review. 

She combines her ecology studies with interdisciplinary work on how different societies value and reconfigure nature. She founded Núcleo DiverSus on Diversity and Sustainability, and co-founded the Global Communal Plant Trait Initiative TRY.  She is a member of the Academies of Sciences of Argentina, USA, France, Norway, Latin America and the Developing World, and Foreign Fellow of the British Royal Society and member of the American Philosophical Society.  Her awards include the Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology (2017), the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research (2019), the Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science (2019), the Kew International Medal (2020) and the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge in Ecology and Conservation Award (2021). 

TOPIC OF THE SESSION   

Biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people underpin every aspect of human wellbeing and are key to the success of the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet they are being depleted and degraded faster than at any other point in human history. In this context, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), an independent, intergovernmental body with 139 state members, aims to strengthen the interface between science and policy on questions around biodiversity, human wellbeing, and sustainability.