MISTRA Finance to Revive Biodiversity (FinBio,org)

Mistra FinBio aims to connect biodiversity and financial sustainability research and that is what will be represented by these talks Wed August 30th between 10-12 at SRC (Holling) 10.00-11.00 “Accounting for Interconnectivity and the possibility of the sustainable governance of businesses” Prof. Ian Thomson University of Dundee School of Business, Scotland is Director of the Centre for Responsible Business and Convenor of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=8GRf2gEAAAAJ&hl=en He studies how current accounting practices hinder or promote sustainable transformation as well as designing new sustainability-accounting hybrid practices that are aligned with sustainable development concepts. He recently moved from Centre for Responsible Business at University of Birmingham. 11.00-12.00 “Biological invasions – a global change driver, not always easy to understand – A common story of data rabbit holes & flexible project planning & policy relevance” Prof. Marten Winter Head of the synthesis center sDiv German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig https://www.idiv.de/en/profile/64.html https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=bMSNuk8AAAAJ&hl=sv&oi=ao He describes himself as “a wildlife ecologist in macroecologist’s clothing with a species invasion cap and a macroevolutionary hanky who worked the last years also with plants”. Marten is interested in talking to people about running a synthesis centre sDiv, and how to thing about science impacts and practices. sDiv supports synthesis workshops through various calls (https://www.idiv.de/en/sdiv/calls.html) that many SRC researchers have participated in over the years.