Impact Tracking Page
Welcome to the IPBES Impact Tracking Database (TRACK).
The purpose of TRACK is to record, document and share examples of the use of IPBES outputs, such as the IPBES assessment reports, in decision-making or in science.
TRACK is not designed to be comprehensive, analytically rigorous or serve a wider monitoring function – it makes no claim to be an exhaustive list of IPBES impacts. It is, instead, an indicative list for the primary purpose of IPBES communications, outreach and public relations. Apart from a basic eligibility screening, the IPBES secretariat does not independently verify the examples listed in TRACK, which are primarily gleaned from third party stakeholders, media reports and similar sources.
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TRACK
Title | Type(s) of impacts generated | Impact date | Scale of impact | Region of Impact | Country/ies of impact | Website | Relevant IPBES deliverable(s) | Private/Public sector impact? | edit |
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IPBES Assessments and conceptual framework cited in and used by WWF for the Living Planet Report 2018 | New/changed research project | 01 Oct 2018 | Organizational | Cross-regional | website | Knowledge and data (1st work programme), Land degradation and restoration assessment, Policy support tools and methodologies (1st work programme), Regional assessments | |||
Caribbean Action Plan published articulating how to implement IPBES Pollinator Assessment at regional and national levels | New/changed commitment | 01 Oct 2018 | Subregional | Americas | Antigua and Barbuda | website | Building capacity (1st work programme), Policy support tools and methodologies (1st work programme), Pollination assessment | ||
Global fund manager requests IPBES expert briefing on risks of pesticides to pollinators | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Sep 2018 | Organizational | website | Pollination assessment | ||||
Dominican Republic includes mandatory consideration of pollinators and habitats in biodiversity and ecosystem surveys | New/changed law/regulation | 01 Sep 2018 | National | Americas | Dominican Republic | website | Pollination assessment | ||
Brazilian research on value of ecosystem services in tropical soils to be based on IPBES approach | New/changed research project | 01 Sep 2018 | Global | website | Policy support tools and methodologies (1st work programme), Values assessment | ||||
French Bee-Repopulation Honey Startup Draws Upon IPBES Pollinators Assessment for Private Venture | New/changed investment | 01 Sep 2018 | National | Europe and Central Asia | France | website | Building capacity (1st work programme), Pollination assessment, Values assessment | ||
Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Planning and Development created an online platform to track pollinators and pests inspired by IPBES assessment | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Sep 2018 | National | Americas | Trinidad and Tobago | website | Building capacity (1st work programme), Indigenous and local knowledge systems (1st work programme), Knowledge and data (1st work programme), Pollination assessment | ||
P3 - People, Pollution and Pathogens Project working on dataset for future IPBES work program | New/changed research project | 01 Sep 2018 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | website | Europe and Central Asia assessment | |||
UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration 2021 – 2030 Initiative proposed by El Salvador mentions IPBES LDR report | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Sep 2018 | Global | website | Communications, Knowledge and data (1st work programme), Land degradation and restoration assessment | ||||
Ramsar Global Wetland Outlook Builds on IPBES Land Degradation and Restoration Assessment | New/changed research project | 01 Sep 2018 | Organizational | website | Building capacity (1st work programme), Indigenous and local knowledge systems (1st work programme), Knowledge and data (1st work programme), Land degradation and restoration assessment, Policy support tools and methodologies (1st work programme), Values assessment | ||||
Project to reforest Dry Corridor of Central America and Dominican Republic partially premised on IPBES Report | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Aug 2018 | Subregional | Americas | Costa Rica | website | Americas assessment | ||
DRC creates national biodiversity and ecosystem services task force on strength of IPBES Africa assessment | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Aug 2018 | National | Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo | website | Africa assessment | ||
IPBES cited in draft EU guidance on a strategic framework supporting green and blue infrastructure | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Aug 2018 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | website | ||||
UNESCO identifies UNESCO-related actions to address drivers of biodiversity change identified by IPBES | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Jul 2018 | Global | website | Land degradation and restoration assessment, Regional assessments | ||||
French CEOs sign Act4Nature corporate pledge partly based on results of IPBES Assessment Reports | New/changed commitment | 01 Jul 2018 | National | Europe and Central Asia | France | website | Europe and Central Asia assessment, Land degradation and restoration assessment, Regional assessments | ||
EU Pollinators Initiative informed by IPBES Pollinators Assessment | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Jun 2018 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | website | Pollination assessment | |||
Brazilian real estate developer cites IPBES Land Degradation Assessment in actions to reduce environmental impact of construction | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Jun 2018 | State/Provincial | Americas | Brazil | website | Land degradation and restoration assessment | ||
Birdlife/SEO calculates that nature's contributions to Spain at Euro 75,000 million per year | New/changed research project | 01 Jun 2018 | National | Europe and Central Asia | Spain | website | Europe and Central Asia assessment | ||
Harmonized indicators developed to monitor biodiversity health of the oceans | New/changed research project | 01 Jun 2018 | Global | website | Global assessment (1st work programme), Knowledge and data (1st work programme), Policy support tools and methodologies (1st work programme), Regional assessments | ||||
Introduction for practitioners on diverse values of nature developed based on IPBES preliminary guide | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Jun 2018 | Global | website | Values assessment | ||||
IPBES assessments used to raise alarm bells about global tipping points | New article | 01 Jun 2018 | Individual | website | Land degradation and restoration assessment, Pollination assessment, Regional assessments | ||||
National strategy to protect pollinating insects in Poland prepared on basis of IPBES Assessment | New/changed action/initiative | 01 May 2018 | National | Europe and Central Asia | Poland | website | Pollination assessment | ||
IPBES Americas Assessment cited in amicus brief in Waters of the United States (#WOTUS) litigation by Society of Wetland Scientists | New/changed action/initiative | 01 May 2018 | National | Americas | United States of America | website | Americas assessment | ||
Proposal to establish a virtual collaboration platform for inter- and trans-disciplinary research in support of international environmental policy | New/changed idea | 01 May 2018 | Global | website | Building capacity (1st work programme), Knowledge and data (1st work programme), Policy support tools and methodologies (1st work programme) | ||||
Research builds on IPBES ILK focused on local shepherd's knowledge and data on the scavenging ecosystem service in Spain | New/changed research project | 01 May 2018 | National | Europe and Central Asia | Spain | website | Indigenous and local knowledge systems (1st work programme), Knowledge and data (1st work programme) | ||
DRC crafts road map to use IPBES assessment results at national and local level | New/changed commitment | 01 Apr 2018 | National | Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo | website | Africa assessment, Building capacity (1st work programme) | ||
Côte d'Ivoire crafts road map on using IPBES Assessment at national and local level | New/changed commitment | 01 Apr 2018 | National | Africa | Côte d'Ivoire | website | Africa assessment, Building capacity (1st work programme) | ||
Cameroon create three road maps for national and local implementation of IPBES Assessment | New/changed commitment | 01 Apr 2018 | National | Africa | Cameroon | website | Africa assessment, Building capacity (1st work programme) | ||
New Zealand issues first report on land issues following IPBES Asia-Pacific and Land Degradation Assessments | New/changed research project | 01 Apr 2018 | National | Asia-Pacific | Armenia | website | Asia-Pacific assessment, Knowledge and data (1st work programme), Land degradation and restoration assessment, Policy support tools and methodologies (1st work programme) | ||
Paris Biodiversity Plan Cites IPBES in Its 2018-2024 Strategy | New/changed policy | 20 Mar 2018 | City/Community | Europe and Central Asia | France | website | Building capacity (1st work programme), Policy support tools and methodologies (1st work programme) | public |