The BES is involved in a horizon scanning exercise to assess novel threats and opportunities to biodiversity conservation in 2050. For example:

• Climate change causes the loss of arctic alpine communities
• Major policy push for tidal power impacts on coastal and estuarine systems
• Nanotechnology debris causes an increase in land pollution into waterways
• Decline in engagement with nature reduces peoples’ interest in biodiversity

Please use the comment function to add your suggestion for a novel issue (i.e. not a continuation of a new one) and how it might affect biodiversity conservation (positevely or negatively).