UZH researchers around the team of the “Genes from Space” initiative (co-lead by C. Röösli and M. Schuman) were attending the seventeenth UN biodiversity conference (COP17) that was being held in Yerevan, Armenia.
As part of the official UZH delegation, they presented their innovative approach to contribute to the monitoring of genetic diversity with help of satellite Earth observation data within different events such as in the pavilion “Data to Action” or their presence at the booth of the Coalition for Genetic Conservation. The initiative is targeting the reporting of the official Headline Indicator A.4 as part of the Kumming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The ESA project EO4Genetic Indicator is currently on-going to support this initiative and to further develop and test an online tool to allow countries to more easily report on this indicator.
