Description of Impact(s) (English Only) Bayer has taken action in eight separate areas to implement the IPBES Pollination Assessment policy options

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) First-ever comparative global assessment of mountain biodiversity, with data collection specifically following the IPBES conceptual framework.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) The initiative in New Aquitaine aims to evaluate the consequences of the erosion of life on all areas of human society, including health, agriculture, industry

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) Inspired by IPBES and funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers, the assessment focused on Nordic coastal areas

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) Connecting biodiversity and ecosystem service (BES) experts from West African universities, research institutions, and existing science-policy interfaces. Annually conducted workshops act as exchange platforms and as distribution hubs for IPBES outputs, supplemented by discussion groups to connect experts and policy makers across West Africa and beyond. A Master of Science (MSc) program on BES assessments is also being established in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, addressing participants from all 15 West African ECOWAS countries.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) RAMSAR Uses IPBES Framework on Values to Create Policy Brief on Integrating Multiple Values of Wetlands into Decision-Making

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) The Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA networks have mobilized up to Euro 23.7 million to fund proposals that address gaps and barriers in biodiversity and ecosystem scenarios identified in the IPBES Assessment Report on Scenarios and Modelling for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) Colombia launched its first national ecosystem assessment virtually on 30 June 2021. It is based on a years-long effort to build Colombia’s capacity to produce a credible, legitimate and relevant assessment report and develop a set of policy support tools to integrate assessment findings into decision-making, with close reference to the IPBES guide on the production of assessments. This initiative was led by the Humboldt Institute in partnership with UNEP-WCMC's National Ecosystem Assessment Initiative and supported by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection through the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net).

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) The Brazilian Government has established a working group in the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources on risk assessment of pesticides to bees in Brazil and issued Normative Instruction No. 02 (NI 02/2017) that establishes procedures to look as pesticide risks to pollinators. According to a representative of the Brazilian Government, the IPBES Pollination Assessment was one of the references used in taking these initiatives - along with, inter alia, lack of a specific legislation for bees, a need to legally detail assessment procedures, occurrences of bee moralities, update to worldwide standards, pressure from society and the government itself.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) Euro 2,49 million grant from the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety to initialize a capacity-building framework across West Africa in support of the IPBES work programme. Aims to connect biodiversity experts from West African universities, research institutions and science-policy interfaces.Strengthening the sub-regional expert pool to support and disseminate assessments within the IPBES scope.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) New initiative at regional level to regroup lead scientists to tackle Biodiversity related issues and challenges. It could serve as forerunner for a similar initiative at the national level and perhaps the international level.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) Magnolia Gardens in South Carolina brings in bee colonies to boost pollination, citing IPBES Assessment

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) Euro 4.5 million grant from the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety to UNDP BES-Net and UNEP-WCMC's Sub-Global Assessment (SGA) Network. Aims: to address pressing development questions; conduct thematic assessments at national and regional levels and apply the findings. The grant responds to calls from developing countries for UNDP to support the work of IPBES on capacity building.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) EFESE is a direct offshoot of the French Government support to the creation of IPBES. Based on IPBES work and its declination at national level, the French platform aims at developing coherent and robust tools to raise awareness of the various values of biodiversity amongst stakeholders and support their decision-making.

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Description of Impact(s) (English Only) Well, well, well, what do we have here? Today's news is incredible. [url=https://news.nbs24.org/2023/06/16/837573/]'Rebel Moon' Sci-Fi feature at[/url] Latest: Over 50 Deaths in 3 Days, Hospitalisation Up in UP's Ballia as Temperature Soars; Top Medical Officer Removed Well, well, well, the news confirms what I've long presumed. It's just as I had thought.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) Decision adopted by the conference of the parties to the CBD to welcomed the Summary for Policymakers of the thematic assessment on pollinators, pollination
and food production approved by IPBES at its fourth session with a decision to endorse the key messages of the Assessment

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) The IPBES Pollination assessment is providing science based evidence for the declaration of Bee Day which recognizes the importance of protection of bees and other pollinators, which will significantly contribute to solving problems with global food supply and eliminating hunger. The resolution was co-sponsored by 115 UN Member States.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) BPBES seeks to place the issues of conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services at the heart of the Brazil's development model. They aim to produce syntheses of the best available knowledge by academic science and traditional knowledge on Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and their relations with human well-being. BPBES is composed of a core team with 30 researchers. In 2016, BPBES produced a document: 'Contributions to the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue: Building the Brazilian Diagnosis on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services'

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) At the Conference of the Parties on Biodiversity the Declaration on the Coalition of the Willing on Pollinators was signed.
The Coalition of the Willing on Pollinators commit to:
1. Take action to protect pollinators and their habitats by developing and implementing national pollinator strategies;
2. Share experience and lessons learnt in developing and implementing national pollinator strategies, especially knowledge on new approaches, innovations and best practices;
3. Reach out to seek collaboration with a broad spectrum of stakeholders – countries as well as businesses, NGO’s, farmers, local communities;
develop research on pollinator conservation;
4. Mutually support and collaborate with each other – and those parties that are willing to join the coalition.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) Colombia is developing a national policy on pollinators that draws on the IPBES Thematic Assessment on Pollinators and Pollination. What is unique is the attention on the knowledge of indigenous peoples in a long term pollinator conservation strategy.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) The Bonn Convention and the Bern convention have agreed on the elements of a joint strategy to eradicate poaching of birds in the Mediterranean region, to address the illegal killing of 20 million birds in Europe and the Mediterranean every year. The Rome Strategic Plan will define the objectives and actions at the national and international level to eradicate illegal killing, taking and trade of wild birds. This happened in the immediate aftermath of the launch of the IPBES Global Assessment Report - which is cited in the announcement.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) After meeting in Metz 5-6 May 2019, the G7 has decided to "(1) Accelerate and intensify our efforts to halt the biodiversity loss, to vlaue, conserve, restore and wisely
use biodiversity, thereby maintaining ecosystem services, sustaining a healthy planet and delivering benefits essential for all people; (2) Encourage the engagement of other actors and stakeholders, including all relevant organizations, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, local and sub-national governments and authorities, academia, women’s and youth groups, the business, financial and economic sectors, and non-governmental organizations, to support and complement our efforts; and (3) Support the development and implementation of a post-2020 global biodiversity framework, which should have a strong level of ambition and practicality, in order to facilitate the transformational changes needed to achieve the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity. It should build on the lessons learned from the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets, as well as on the best available science and knowledge. It should be aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development."

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) In an editorial in the Journal Plants, People, Planet, Dawn Sanders highlights the academic perspectives of humanities, social science, plant science, conservation and ecology to address the issue of "plant blindness," the phenomena of humans turning a blind eye toward plants despite relying on them for "food, shelter, fuel, and fibers for clothing, as well as for our gardens, landscape, and artistic inspiration" and the ubiquitous presence of plants in the physical and cultural experiences of people.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) The IPBES Global Assessment Report has influenced the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)'s biodiversity lead write that "the key findings of the [IPBES] Report that show, in no uncertain terms, biodiversity is declining at rates unprecedented in human history. This rapid reduction of the world’s precious natural diversity is cause for great alarm, but as the report also states, it’s not too late for us to make a difference."

The ICMM has therfore urged business and governments to adopt a collaborative approach to managing biodiversity and building a robust post-2020 Biodiversity Framework.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) Following the discussions and agreement at the BES-Net Anglophone Africa Regional Trialogue, policy, science and practice sector representatives in Nigeria convened to refine a two-year strategic action plan for pollinator-friendly land degradation neutrality, as a means to act on the IPBES thematic assessments on pollinators/pollination and land degradation/restoration.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) In its Green Finance Strategy published in July 2019, the government of the United Kingdom cited the IPBES Global Assessment at length. The Strategy refers to the Global Assessment as a “timely [reminder] of the urgency of action” to combat biodiversity loss. The Strategy seeks to achieve two key objectives: to align private sector financial flows with clean, environmentally sustainable and resilient growth, supported by Government action; and to strengthen the competitiveness of the UK financial sector.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) Researchers at the University of Greifswald have published a study titled “The Values of Sacred Swamps: Belief-Based Nature Conservation in a Secular World”, which draws on the conceptual framework of IPBES. The results of the study “underscore the importance of a focus on nature’s contributions to people’s quality of life in the new IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) conceptual framework that reflects the importance of socio-cultural relations between people and nature for nature conservation in a specific place (Diaz et al. 2018).”

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) The IPBES Global Assessment is cited in a European Parliament study titled “Biodiversity as a Human Right and its Implications for the EU’s External Action”. The study explains that the findings of the Global Assessment related to human rights concerns have “already led the EU Council to underline that ‘biodiversity and healthy ecosystems and their services support the full enjoyment of human rights’.

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) An article from the Alexander von Humboldt Institute reflects on the institute’s Knowledge Systems Approach and how it works in relation to the IPBES conceptual framework. The authors are particularly interested in the way in which IPBES understands Indigenous and local knowledge.