The Office of the Chief Science Advisor organized a successful series of roundtable consultations in 2024 to support the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and contribute to the development of Canada’s National Biodiversity Strategy.
These sessions brought together experts, Indigenous partners, and key stakeholders to help advance three important components of the strategy.
Insights from these roundtables contributed to the development of three published reports:
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Towards a National Biodiversity Digital Data Repository and Associated Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform
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This report addresses critical challenges in collecting, archiving, and managing biodiversity-related digital information, with a focus on optimizing its accessibility and use through AI tools, and lays the groundwork for a digital data repository and AI platform that would provide decision-makers with high-quality, adaptable biodiversity information.
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Towards Indigenous-Relevant Indicators for the Implementation of Biodiversity Conservation Plans
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This report lays important groundwork for developing biodiversity indicators that are informed by Indigenous values and knowledge, ensuring that Canada’s conservation strategies are inclusive of diverse perspectives and approaches.
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Improving Natural Capital Accounting in Canada
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This report highlights the importance of helping decision-makers recognize and account for the full range of nature’s values when shaping plans and policies, explores how natural capital assets are represented, addresses challenges in current accounting frameworks, and examines ways to better integrate monetary, welfare, and non-monetary values associated with natural capital assets.
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