Back in Davos last week for the World Biodiversity Forum, two years on from my first time at the forum in 2024 - and with a much fuller programme.

I gave two talks: one on developing national-scale Nature Futures Framework scenarios in Switzerland and Peru, and another, in a workshop and panel discussion, on how scenario modelling can help secure biodiversity and ecosystem services under uncertainty, and what that means for financial stability.

I also chaired a session I co-convened with Adrienne Gret-Regamey and Peter Verburg: “Rethinking static spatial planning for biodiversity conservation in a rapidly changing world”. As climate and socio-economic change reshape where biodiversity is found, the way we plan protected areas and spatial zoning is still largely based on static snapshots of the environment, and often overlooks differing views on what conservation is actually for. The session brought together approaches for making area-based conservation more responsive, flexible, equitable and robust under uncertainty.

We had three excellent presentations and a set of posters, with discussion that ran right up to the clock. Next step: synthesising the contributions into actionable recommendations for planners and decision-makers, with an eye to processes like the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

What does dynamic, future-proof conservation planning look like to you? I would be glad to hear how others are approaching this.

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