May 21-22, 2025
Washington, DC

Assessing biodiversity is fundamental to understanding the distribution of biodiversity, the changes that are occurring and, crucially, the effectiveness of actions to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis. Such assessments face multiple challenges, not least the great complexity of natural systems, but also a lack of standardized approaches to measurement, a plethora of measurement technologies with their own strengths and weaknesses, and different data needs depending on the purpose for which the information is being gathered. Other sectors have faced similar challenges, and the Forum will look to learn from these precedents with a view to building momentum towards standardised methods for using environmental monitoring technologies, including new technologies, for particular purposes. We will explore ways to ensure interoperability between different outputs and confidence that observed changes in biodiversity are the result of real changes in what is being measured, and advance the integration of biodiversity monitoring with evaluation to help ensure conservation at a variety of scales can be more effective.

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