The values of biodiversity

16 June 2023, University of Copenhagen

The symposium on the values of biodiversity was held at the University of Copenhagen and funded by the 15 June Foundation. It featured keynote speakers Professor Unai Pascual, Professor Mette Termansen and Professor Arild Vatn, all of whom contributed to the development of the IPBES report The Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature.

Presentations can be downloaded as PDFs below. The program for the symposium can be downloaded here in danish or english.

Presentations

Justine Grønbæk Pors, Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School and member of the IPBES steering committee
“Introduction IPBES”

Unai Pascual, Professor and chair of the IPBES report on values of nature and biodiversity
“IPBES Values Assessment: Context and key findings”

Mette Termansen, Professor at the University of Copenhagen and coordinating lead author of the IPBES report
“Values and valuation”

Arild Vatn, Professor at NMBU and coordinating lead author of the IPBES report
“Values and decision-making”

Lorenzo Benini, Senior Researcher from the European Environmental Agency
Roger Strand, Professor at the University of Bergen

“Exploring fundamental change in our relationship with nature”

Niels Strange, Professor at the University of Copenhagen and member of the Danish Biodiversity Council
“The need for a Biodiversity Act and its contribution to securing the value of biodiversity”
(Danish)

Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, Professor at the University of Copenhagen
“A proposal on how to account for biodiversity in a green GDP”
(Danish)

Mette Termansen, Professor at the University of Copenhagen and coordinating lead author of the IPBES report
“Integrating the value of biodiversity and ecosystem services into land use planning”
(Danish)