2022 Cluster Highlights

Dr Claudia Munera Roldan

Research highlights

Examples of birdwatching tourism win-win situations for bird and forest conservation, and local communities. See full paper: journals.plos.org/climate

Public policy initiatives

Dr Muera Roldan joined the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) task force on Scenarios and Models in July, nominated by Colombia, and attended a three-day workshop in South Africa on the Nature Futures Framework with experts from around the world. The workshop aimed to catalyse the further development of scenarios and models for future IPBES assessments, including by testing the nature futures framework and discussing its limits and opportunities; collect additional feedback on the methodological guidance for using the nature futures framework, including potential challenges involved in its application; and further catalyse the development of qualitative and quantitative case studies that would be available for the nexus and transformative change assessments. Many discussions were around how to use the framework to link biodiversity and climate change and inform conservation, adaptation, and mitigation policies.