Tools, Models, AI and Platform/Twins: This session highlights emerging digital innovations that are transforming the way biodiversity is monitored, modeled, and managed. Presentations will showcase cutting-edge tools, including digital twins for ecosystem simulation and global platforms designed for biodiversity data collection, sharing, and interoperability. A particular emphasis will be placed on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing biodiversity assessment—through automated species identification, pattern recognition, predictive modeling, and the integration of complex and heterogeneous datasets. By illustrating how these digital resources support scientific research, policy development, and cross-sectoral collaboration, the session will emphasize the pivotal role of digital infrastructures in fostering informed, adaptive, and integrated biodiversity conservation strategies.

Interlinkages among biodiversity, water, mitigation, Food and health: Biodiversity is essential to our very existence, supporting our water and food supplies, our health and the stability of the climate. Climate change and overexploitation of natural resources are strong drivers of biodiversity loss, causing significant disturbances to ecosystems. Biodiversity is declining in all regions of the world and at all spatial scales, impacting ecosystem functioning, water availability and quality, food security and nutrition, human, plant and animal health and resilience to the impacts of climate change. The session highlights critical dependencies between biodiversity and climate dynamics, and interlinkages among biodiversity, water and food security, climate mitigation, and health. The session will emphasize how biodiversity loss and climate change are interdependent and produce compounding impacts that threaten human health and societal well-being. 

This session explores the potential of agroecology, ecological restoration, and NbS as transformative approaches to build resilience in agricultural and managed landscapes, regenerate ecosystems, and enhance biodiversity. Presentations will examine how agroecological best practices can contribute to biodiversity conservation in managed landscapes while supporting sustainable food systems and ecosystem services. Case studies will illustrate the design and implementation of restoration strategies across degraded terrestrial ecosystems, with attention to ecological, social, and policy dimensions. The role of NbS in mitigating climate impacts, restoring multifunctional landscapes, and fostering synergies between conservation and production will also be addressed. Contributions will highlight methodological innovations, monitoring frameworks, and participatory approaches that link local traditional knowledge with scientific evidence.