Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

EU expert meeting of the IPBES Work Programme and Peer review procedures

Thursday, 19 January 2012 10:17

The University of Copenhagen together with EPBRS (European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy) and the Danish Ministry of Environment organised two workshops preceding the formation of IPBES.

The first workshop, "EPBRS - The thematic content of the first IPBES work programme", took place on 16 – 18 January 2012 and the second workshop, "EU Expert meeting - Peer review procedures in IPBES and procedures for election of authors, editors and reviewers in IPBES" on 19 – 20 January 2012

Further information on these workshops here.

Expert workshop on knowledge generation

Thursday, 19 January 2012 09:48

USGS and ICSU (DIVERSITAS, IHDP) are co-organizing a workshop to be held from 31 January 2012 to 02 February 2012 in Annapolis, USA. This workshop will bring together an international group of scientific experts from multidisciplinary backgrounds to provide input to the IPBES second session on the possible work program focusing on the IPBES function "generation of knowledge" and relationship to the other IPBES components. The end goal is to provide a template that can be used to craft the initial work program for IPBES.

Further information can be found here.

Participate in the Stakeholder Forum on IPBES

Monday, 16 January 2012 08:37

Created and moderated by the IUCN Programme on IPBES, the Stakeholder Forum on IPBES is a new email discussion group for everyone interested in advancing the involvement of scientists, conservation organizations, businesses and other civil society actors in IPBES.

The Forum aims to help discovering the role that civil society can play in shaping IPBES and defining its goals.

For more information and registration, please consult the dedicated IUCN pages

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