Identifying ways forward: the LSE Roundtable on Global Biodiversity and Digital Sequence Information

This paper reports on a critical two-day Roundtable convened at the London School of Economics (27th and 28th September 2024), prior to the sixteenth Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Cali, Colombia. It sets out the basis for the threshold model and language proposal that came to be known during the negotiations as the ‘LSE Model’. This language was adopted by Parties and included in para 3 of the annex in Decision 16/2 setting out the basis of the Cali Fund. 

The LSE Roundtable brought together experts from a range of fields, industry and database representatives and negotiators from the major UN regions to consider three main questions: a) What criteria can be used to determine the size of the fund? b) Who should contribute and based on what measures? c) How can trust be promoted in the DSI data ecosystem? The views in this document reflect the analysis of LSE team members based on the discussions at the Roundtable. Lead authors are S Thambisetty and P Oldham; contributing authors are S Kamath, L Reitmeier, A Makowska-Curran, J Kindness and J Portilla.

Thambisetty, Siva and Oldham, Paul and Reitmeier, Lea and Kamath, Saipriya and Makowska-Curran, Agata and Kindness, Jasmine and Portilla, Julian, Identifying Ways Forward: The LSE Roundtable on Global Biodiversity and Digital Sequence Information (October 15, 2024). LSE Knowledge Exchange and Impact fund 2024 | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13935826, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5038854 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5038854