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IPBES established: "Today, biodiversity won"

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Created on Monday, 23 April 2012 03:38

IPBES was established by more than 90 Governments in Panama City on Saturday 21 April, after several years of international negotiations.

“Today, biodiversity won”, said the chair of the meeting, Sir Robert Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the United Kingdom. “Biodiversity and ecosystem services are essential for human wellbeing. This platform will generate the knowledge and build the capacity to protect them for this and future generations.”

The German city of Bonn won the bid to host the secretariat of the new independent body.

Fore more information, see:
- the full press release in English and Spanish;
- IISD's coverage of the meeting and the ENB summary report for the meeting.

Report of the Copenhagen workshop on the IPBES work programme now available

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Created on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 07:13

Two workshops on IPBES were held last January in Copenhagen, organised by the University of Copenhagen,  EPBRS (European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy) and the Danish Ministry of Environment. 

The report of the first workshop "EPBRS - The thematic content of the first IPBES work programme" (January 16th-18th) is now available here.

Second independant scientific workshop on assessments in IPBES

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Created on Monday, 20 February 2012 10:43

From 27 to 29 February 2012, the Ministry of Environment of Japan will hold an Informal Pre-Plenary Scientific International Workshop on Assessment and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), co-organized with the United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace (UNU-ISP) and United Nations University International Human Dimension Programme on Global Environmental Change (UNU-IHDP).

This workshop will help develop an Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and bridge the gap between scientific dialogue and international policy.

For more information, please see this link.

Regional workshop to be held in Tehran

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Created on Monday, 20 February 2012 10:42

In preparation for the second plenary meeting on IPBES, a regional capacity building workshop and consultative meeting for ECO country members, as well as Asia and the Pacific will be held from 10 to 12 March 2012 in Tehran, hosted by the Department of Environment of Islamic Republic of Iran in collaboration with the ECO Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ECO-IEST), with support from UNEP and financial support from the Government of Norway.

The objective of this regional gathering is to provide information on the IPBES process so far, present the agenda and documents for the second session of a plenary meeting and facilitate an exchange of views on these among governmental stakeholders.

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