Austria's biodiversity newly strengthened: Biodiversity Austria - International is starting!

Austria's biodiversity newly strengthened: Biodiversity Austria - International is starting!

In a significant step to combat global biodiversity loss, Austria launched the national interface "Biodiversity Austria - International". This initiative, which is located at the Biodiversity Hub Austria in Krems and was developed in cooperation with the University of Vienna, is intended to enable Austrian researchers to bring their expertise into the intergovernmental platform for biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBEs). According to a report by Oekonews.at , this interface aims to develop gaps in knowledge in the field of biodiversity and to develop effective political options Stop.

The new interface will actively support the Austrian delegation, which will take part in the 11th plenary session of IPBES in Windhoek, Namibia from December 10th to 16th, 2024. This session is of great importance, since Ipbes regularly creates reports on the condition and trends of global biodiversity and thereby provides crucial data that are of enormous importance for politics. "IPBES gained special awareness through his first global status report in 2019, which showed that a million species have already been threatened with extinction," explains Alice Vadrot, an expert in international biodiversity policy and in particular with this initiative. The interface will promote the exchange of knowledge between science, politics and administration and thus strengthen the ability to act towards the biodiversity crisis in Austria, as well as biodiversityustria.at reports.

"Biodiversity Austria - International" is funded by the Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) and represents the national contact point with IPBES. The close cooperation between these institutions is intended to ensure that Austrian expertise is specifically brought into international processes in order to support the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity. In this way, Austria positions itself as an active participant in the global discussion about biodiversity and sets a strong sign in the fight against global environmental crises.