Biodiversity Gateway

This seminar on sustainable lifestyles seeks to be a space for reflection and a working forum for experts in various fields of action related to this topic. It also aims to identify exemplary and replicable initiatives to promote changes in behavior and consumption habits that are more sustainable with nature. To encourage debate and reflection, the results of the report “Social and psychosocial analysis on factors influencing changes in lifestyles” will be taken as a reference, prepared within the framework of the project “Changing lifestyles to recover nature”, promoted by the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), financed by European Union funds – NextGenerationEU.

This seminar seeks to raise awareness of the importance and opportunities offered by green infrastructure, share visions and advances from the Autonomous Communities and other sectors such as the scientific sector. For the proposal of the contents of the seminar we have taken into account the conclusions and needs raised at the last meeting of the IVCRE Strategy Working Group held between the Autonomous Communities and MITECO on February 17, 2022, to use the seminars as a tool for work, reflection and sharing of different topics and issues raised at that meeting.

In the second seminar of the conference series “Biodiversity Gateway”, which we organize in the framework of the International Day for Biological Diversity, we will discuss the cross-cutting aspects of the relationship between nature and human activity, and its impact on biodiversity. Through the participation of various experts we intend to highlight the role of biodiversity as a fundamental part of green recovery, focusing on the benefits it brings us and the solutions it offers us for the renaturalization and change in our cultural and economic model from the scientific point of view.

Understanding the relationship between gender and environment is key to addressing environmental challenges in an equitable and sustainable way. Although there is evidence of the important link between gender and environment, we still lack relevant data. This first seminar of the Cycle of Conferences that we are launching at our headquarters in Seville aims to provide different perspectives on this nexus and to generate knowledge that will help us to face the ecological transition with a gender perspective.