Dear colleagues, From our IUFRO Landscape Ecology WP members. Best regards, João Dear Colleagues, The *Global Change Research Symposium* is back! Ten years after the successful meeting held in September 2014, Southern Italy, a new Symposium will be organized in Beijing, China from October 16 to 19, 2024. The *Call for Abstracts *is open at the following link: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=w40yxt-vzkCEbTJu6thtScr… Contributions are expected on one or more of the following topics: 1.  Urban forests and green spaces as nature-based solutions 2.  Smart technologies and remote sensing applications 3.  Smart solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation 4.  Smart solutions for natural risk management and healthy/resilient cities 5.  Ecosystem services, human wellbeing and restoring urban ecosystems 6.  Smart solutions for mitigating soil, water, and air pollution *Keynote speakers* include top-level scientists and experts, such as: ·      Prof. Riccardo Valentini, IPCC, University of Tuscia, Italy ·      Prof. Jiquan Chen, Michigan State University, USA ·      Prof. Puay Yok Tan, National University Singapore, Singapore ·      Prof. Cheng Wang, Chinese Academy of Forestry Science, Beijing, China ·      Prof. Wendy Chen, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong ·      Prof. Giovanni Sanesi, DISSPA - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy ·      Prof. Xingyuan He, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Science, China ·      Prof. Xiangrong Wang, Fudan University, Shanghai, China ·      Prof. Richard Hauer, University of Wisconsin, USA ·      Prof. Rik De Vreese, European Forest Institute, Belgium ·      Prof. Somidha Saha, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Please note that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to*August 15, 2024*, however we encourage you to submit your abstract *as soon as possible*. For further details about the event please visit the website: https://www.globalchange2024.com/More information about the registration, special issues on scientific journals and field trips will be available by mid-July. We look forward to seeing you in Beijing this October! Prof. Raffaele LAFORTEZZA, Prof. Giovanni SANESI and Prof. Chengyang XU Organizers of the Global Change Research Symposium 2024