Environmental biology professor Madhur Anand will prepare a report for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) on the joint World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions and the International Academies of Sciences (IAP) Young Scientists Conference held in China this month.

NSERC will use the report in policy and program development. It will cover keynotes and workshops examining issues such as access to information and knowledge, research integrity and scientific responsibility, and mobility and migration.

At the IAP conference, Anand participated in a panel discussion on forest sustainability. She addressed the valuation of ecosystem services and the cost-effectiveness and opportunities for forest restoration at the global scale. Follow-up discussions from her session are captured in World Economic Forum reports on resource scarcity now available online.

Anand, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Ecological Change, was nominated to attend the conference by the Royal Society of Canada, a member of IAP.