Registration on this page is to watch the event online.  To attend in-person at the Oxford Martin School, please register at: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/measuring-what-matters

This event is part of a seminar series co-organised by OMS and the LSE Global School of Sustainability in support of the IPBES Plenary meeting taking place in Manchester in the first week of February.  The Plenary will see the release of a major IPBES Report on Biodiversity & Business and this seminar series will explore topics related to this theme.

The focus of this panel discussion will be on the science required to enable business to make better decisions about biodiversity, and to enable governments and other bodies to enact sensible regulatory frameworks.  We hope to explore recent advances in biodiversity monitoring and modelling.  Of course, better science is only part of what is needed for business to be more biodiversity positive and other events in the series will explore economic and political economy aspects. 

Professor Nathalie Seddon, Professor of Biodiversity in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford (Chair) 

Dr Elizabeth Boakes, Conservation Scientist, RSPB Conservation Science Monitoring Team

Professor Andy Purvis, Research Leader, Natural History Museum, London

Professor Kate Jones, Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity, University College London

Professor Mark Blaxter, Head of the Tree of Life Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Professor Anjali Goswami, Chief Scientific Adviser and Director General Science, Data and Analysis, DEFRA

Panel Discussion: 'Measuring what matters: biodiversity metrics for business and finance'