D2.3 EuropaBON Proposal for an EU Biodiversity Observation Coordination Centre (EBOCC)
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Observations are key to understanding the state of nature, the drivers of biodiversity loss and the impacts on ecosystem services and ultimately on people. Many EU policies and initiatives call for unbiased, integrated and regularly updated data on biodiversity and ecosystem services. However, biodiversity monitoring efforts are spatially and temporally fragmented, taxonomically biased and not integrated across Europe. EuropaBON has addressed this gap by developing an EU-wide framework for biodiversity monitoring. With this deliverable, EuropaBON proposes the terms of reference for an EU Biodiversity Observation Coordination Centre (EBOCC), a permanent infrastructure that could coordinate and foster the generation and use of high quality data to underpin the biodiversity knowledge-base used across EU policies, providing guidance and trainings when necessary. Such a centre represents one of the key solutions to overcome the critical challenges of biodiversity monitoring in Europe. Having this integrated and continuous monitoring capacity would allow more timely and efficient interventions that would optimise our capacity to revert biodiversity loss and prevent environmental degradation. It would also increase the value-added to the data flows, reaching high-value outputs with some existing low-value inputs. This deliverable offers a critical analysis of the existing monitoring landscape in Europe, extracting key messages about the main challenges, lessons learned and possible solutions. Based on a comprehensive analysis of needs and, most importantly, on an inclusive consultation process, the deliverable designs an EBOCC that tackles the key biodiversity monitoring challenges. The proposal specifies the mission, the tasks, the most urgent topics, the main policies and the key stakeholders that the EBOCC should serve and focus on during the first stage of its implementation. It also includes detailed analyses about governance models and potential costs. With this proposal, EuropaBON fosters the setting up and testing an operational EBOCC that could address the urgent need for coordination, integration, harmonisation and strengthening of biodiversity data collection and analysis, in order to inform policy-making at local, national, European and international level.
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Camino Liquete
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European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
University of Kent, Kent, United Kingdom
European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya, Solsona, Spain
University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
University of Bern, Bern, Swaziland
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
iDiv, Leipzig, Germany
EBCC-ICO, Barcelona, Spain
CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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Norsk institutt for vannforskning (NIVA), Oslo, Norway
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) / German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
George Mason University, Fairfax, United States of America
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany
Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Oslo, Norway
Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) , Helsinki, Finland
Re:wild, Austin, TX, United States of America
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle, Germany
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany
Dutch Butterfly Conservation, Wageningen, Netherlands
SYKE, Helsinki, Finland
Office français de la biodiversité, Pérols, France
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Copenhagen, Denmark
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Helmholtz-Center for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig, Germany
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