Identifying ways forward: LSE roundtable on biodiversity finance and Digital Sequence Information
The Ocean Biodiversity Collective with its partner organisation, One World Analytics (OWA) convened a Roundtable on September 27-28th to provide independent evaluation of the policy options on Digital Sequence Information (DSI) at COP16. LSE experts – Dr Siva Thambisetty (Law School), Dr Saipriya Kamath (Accounting), Agata Makowska-Curran (PhD student Geography), Lea Reitmeier (Grantham Research Institute, CETEx), Dr Paul Oldham (founder of OWA and LSE Anthropology 1996) and Jasmine Kindness (OWA and LSE Anthropology 2018) worked with experts from several disciplines, industry stakeholders and State Party representatives from all UN regions. This document is a short outcome report of the meeting.
The Ocean Biodiversity Collective was set up by Dr Thambisetty and is funded by LSE’s Knowledge Exchange and Impact fund. The Roundtable received substantial funding from NORAD, and was facilitated by the Meridian Institute and the Grantham Research Institute at LSE.