The Korean Nature Futures project develops a globally useful visioning and forecasting framework for biodiversity, people, and climate neutrality in Korea. We are proud to have contributed to this project through the International science for Net Zero Plus agile fund.
Actions that could restore biodiversity and build ecosystem resilience, reduce climate change and its impact, and enhance the potential to maximize co-benefits and minimize trade-offs across sectors will require accurate and credible forecasting to test new scenarios involving policy and management actions with impacts assessable at a global scale. It also requires a dynamic modelling approach to allow for novel system behaviours and a modelling platform with policy-relevant and spatially explicit outputs. To drive this, we require scenarios that span the decision space from place-based, people and nature-focused, solution-oriented, and locally driven through to globally standardized, multiscale and integrative at the systems level. The Korean Nature Futures project aspires to achieve this ambition through collaborative inter- and trans-disciplinary research moving beyond the state of the art in building the capability for visioning and forecasting nature and people positive futures.
The project starts with visions for living in harmony with nature in 2050 in the Korean peninsula and for a new modelling framework and scientific evidence base to be co-developed with citizen stakeholders to support subnational, national and international policies on biodiversity conservation, climate neutrality, and societal wellbeing. This webinar brings three speakers together to share their knowledge and experience on Korea's recent futures research, ecological restoration projects and tiger and leopard conservation efforts centered on the Korean Peninsula.