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België versterkt zijn inzet voor natuurbehoud met de officiële goedkeuring van de Nationale Biodiversiteitsstrategie 2025–2030. Deze geactualiseerde strategie, het resultaat van nauwe samenwerking tussen de regio’s en de federale overheid, vormt het referentiekader voor het Belgische natuurbeleid…
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Wednesday 30 April 2025

11h00 – 12h00 (CET)

 

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This month’s speakers

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Prof. Michael

The Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences will organize its sixth Theme Day on Monday 1 December 2025. The goal of this conference is to allow researchers, who are active in overseas countries, to meet each other, whatever their specialization, but also to let them know the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences and its activities (www.kaowarsom.be). We warmly encourage lectures from young researchers, in the form of oral presentations or posters. Abstracts may be submitted in English, French or Dutch, but preferably in English.

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The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 highlighted the critical need for preparedness in responding to future pandemics. Effective disease control relies on the swift and accurate dissemination of information to policymakers

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Wednesday 26 February 2025

11h00 – 12h00 (CET)

 

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 📢 Belgian IPBES Day 

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Join us for Belgian IPBES Day on 19 March 2025 in Brussels, Belgium!

For those unfamiliar, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is a

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The Belgian One Health network, the Belgian Biodiversity Platform, and Sciensano are pleased to provide the completed programme for their 2-day event.

 

Ecosystems in the balance

This One Health event will

Political Monitoring - November 2024 is available here
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Financietoren (Pachecozaal) Brussel | Donderdag 20 februari 2025 vanaf 9u00

O.l.v. Professor van Ypersele (UCLouvain)

Op donderdag 20 februari 2025 organiseert de Federale Raad voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling (FRDO) een nieuw evenement onder de noemer Jongeren en klimaat met deze keer speciale

Wednesday 27 November 2024

11h00 – 12h00 (CET)

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Speakers

Dr Geoffrey M. Malinga-Assoc.Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Gulu University/MASEDIN ProjectCo-PI.

 

Dr Sabine Van Miert, Thomas

The political monitoring of October 2024 is available here .

Conference organized by the Federal Council for Sustainable Development of Belgium (FRDO-CFDD), in collaboration with the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils Network (EEAC)

 

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE

The urgent need to transform the European economy in order to

The political monitoring of September 2024 is available here .
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From doing better to doing what nature needs 

Main Forum - September 19th 2024, from 9 am to 6 pm      
Welcome coffee from 8.30 am      
Cocktail from 6 pm      
at The Egg Rue Bara 175, 1070 Bruxelles

Special Sessions for WWF Corporate Partners, September 20th 2024, from 9 am to 1 pm   

The political monitoring of August 2024 is available here .
Aujourd'hui à Agadir (Maroc), le Conseil international de coordination du Programme de l' UNESCO sur l'homme et la biosphère a décidé de reconnaître la KempenBroek comme réserve de biosphère transfrontalière . La KempenBroek devient ainsi la première zone de biosphère transfrontalière de l'UNESCO…
Today in Agadir (Morocco), the International Coordinating Council for the UNESCO Human and Biosphere Programme decided to recognise KempenBroek as a cross-border Biosphere Reserve. KempenBroek thus becomes the first cross-border UNESCO Biosphere Area in the Benelux, the first in Belgium and the…
Vandaag besliste de Internationale Coördinerende Raad voor het Mens- en Biosfeerprogramma van UNESCO in Agadir (Marokko) om het KempenBroek te erkennen als grensoverschrijdend Biosfeergebied . Het KempenBroek wordt hiermee het eerste grensoverschrijdende UNESCO Biosfeergebied in de Benelux , het…
The political monitoring of June 2024 is an overview of the agenda items that were discussed at SBSTTA-26 and SBI-4 in Nairobi, Kenya in May 2024 The political monitoring is available here 280624_PolMon_0.pdf
From June 24 to September 24, 2024, the FPS Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural sciences are organizing a public consultation on the draft of the 'Update of the Belgian national biodiversity strategy until 2030'. This gives you the opportunity to give…
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From 17 to 19 juin 2024 the Belgian focal point for the CHM is organising a network meeting with 9 francophone African partner countries.

Participants will discuss:

  • the development of their national CHMs since 2022
  • COP15, SBSTTA 25 and 26 and SBI 4 decision that will have an impact on their

The update of the National Biodiversity Strategy aims to align Belgium’s goals with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the European Biodiversity Strategy 2030. It is a significant step towards enhancing our commitment to biodiversity conservation, restoration and sustainable use

The political monitoring by the Belgian National Focal Point to the Convention on Biological Diversity is carried out on a periodic basis, with the goal of informing about political processes related to biodiversity in Belgium and the EU: the Chamber, the Senate, the Walloon Parliament, the…
The political monitoring by the Belgian National Focal Point to the Convention on Biological Diversity is carried out on a periodic basis, with the goal of informing about political processes related to biodiversity in Belgium and the EU: the Chamber, the Senate, the Walloon Parliament, the…