Supporting policy

The IPBES 2030 work programme includes “supporting policy” as one of its six objectives to identify and promote the development and use of policy instruments, policy support tools and methodologies in the field of biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services.

This objective will be achieved through ongoing and future activities across the work programme, as follows:

• Advanced work on policy instruments, policy support tools and methodologies
  • Supporting the use of policy instruments, policy support tools and methodologies in the implementation of the programme of work relevant for biodiversity conservation, restoration and sustainable use, as well as provision of ecosystem functions and services in the conduct of the assessments, and in enabling the uptake of the findings of the assessments in decision-making
  • Developing the IPBES policy support web portal
  • Promoting and catalysing the further development of policy instruments and policy support tools to fill gaps identified in assessments and related capacity-building activities

• Advanced work on scenarios and models of biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services
  • Providing advice to expert groups assessing the use of existing models and scenarios
  • Catalysing the development of new scenarios and associated models for the future work of IPBES and the application in policy development
  • Promoting coherence with similar work carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other bodies, as appropriate

• Advanced work on multiple values
  • Providing advice on the integration of multiple conceptualizations of values into other deliverables of the work programme, in particular under the objectives on assessments and policy instruments, policy support tools and methodologies
  • Further work building on the methodological assessment regarding the diverse conceptualization of multiple values of nature and its contributions, including biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services