May 5-7, 2025
Since 2022, when over 100 nations signed the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the world has been racing towards its target of protecting 30 percent of land and water area by the end of the decade. With only five years left, conservationists are now asking what we are getting right and how we can scale these solutions to pack an even greater punch. What gaps and barriers remain? What emerging science can we leverage?
This symposium, hosted by the Salazar Center for North American Conservation, will explore how we can track our progress toward our collective biodiversity goals and how we might evolve the structures and dynamics of our social and economic systems to ensure long-term natural security and socioeconomic stability. It invites speakers to tackle the difficult questions we must grapple with to build a future that’s fair for everyone on a finite planet.