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294 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Anonymous | ShareAction Biodiversity Report Highlights Findings of IPBES Global Assessment | English (396) | ShareAction has released "Point of No Returns - Biodiversity: An assessment of asset managers’ approaches to biodiversity," which highlights the findings of the IPBES Global Assessment as part of its executive summary and overview of the state of biodiversity. The report explains that "the 2019 landmark report released by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) illustrates starkly the extent to which human activity is eroding the world’s ecological foundations." ShareAction is a non-profit working to build a global investment sector which is responsible for its impacts on people and planet. "ShareAction is a campaigning organisation pushing the global investment system to take responsibility for its impacts on people and planet, and use its power to create a green, fair, and healthy society. We want a future where all finance powers social progress. For 15 years, ShareAction has driven responsibility into the heart of mainstream investment through research, campaigning, policy advocacy, and public mobilisation. Using our tools and expertise, we influence major investors and the companies they invest in to improve labour standards, tackle the climate crisis and address inequality and public health issues." |
New/changed research project | Website | Link to report | Link to report | https://greenfinanceplatform.org/resource/point-no-returns-biodiversity-assessment-asset-managers%E2%80%99-approaches-biodiversity | 2020-06-11 | Multi-organizational/network | private | Michelle | Hahn-Baker | IPBES | Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||||
443 | Thu, 21/10/2021 | Anonymous | The BNP Group Relies on Studies by IPBES Global Assessment Report as They Strengthen Their Commitment to Biodiversity | English (396) | French international banking group, BNP Paribas, has been committed to preserving biodiversity through its financing policies, constructive dialogues with its clients, its coalitions, philanthropy and support for research for years, and has relied on IPBES studies to help structure its actions and understand their impacts. Committed to furthering its position, the Group is diversifying and strengthening its actions as a leading economic player, as well as through collective actions, and has published a Position on biodiversity reaffirming its commitments, its continued actions and its intentions for promoting biodiversity going forward. | New/changed commitment | Website | BNP Paribas reaffirms its commitments to help preserve biodiversity | BNP Paribas reaffirms its commitments to help preserve biodiversity | https://group.bnpparibas/en/news/bnp-paribas-reaffirms-commitments-preserve-biodiversity | 2021-04-05 | Cross-regional | private | Britt | Curley | IPBES | Assistant Programme Management-Communications | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||||
486 | Wed, 07/09/2022 | Fernando Neda | BNP Paribas Structures and Strengthens its Financing Policies and Commitments to Help Preserve Biodiversity Based on IPBES Studies and Issues a 'Position on Biodiversity' | English (396) | The financial group stated that "to structure its actions and understand their impacts, the Group relies on studies by IPBES." Based on the 2019 IPBES Global Assessment and other IPBES findings and calls for action, particularly the pressures on biodiversity listed by IPBES, the group claims that it is "is diversifying and strengthening its actions as a leading economic player, as well as through collective actions." BNP Paribas issued a 'Position on Biodiversity', committing to (1) "reduction of pressures related to the activity of its customers and companies in which the Group invests, through constructive dialogue and supervision of our credit and investment activities"; (2) "active support to [its] clients' efforts to preserve biodiversity, through specific financial products and services (SLL, green bonds, etc.)"; (3) "[orient] investments towards funds aiming at preserving biodiversity"; and (4) "[reduce the Group's direct impacts on biodiversity," among other significant commitments]. | New/changed investment | Website | BNP Paribas reaffirms its commitments to help preserve biodiversity | BNP Paribas reaffirms its commitments to help preserve biodiversity | https://group.bnpparibas/en/news/bnp-paribas-reaffirms-commitments-preserve-biodiversity | 2021-05-04 | Global | private | Fernando | Neda | IPBES | PIA | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||||
429 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Anonymous | Nigerian Experts Approve National Strategy on Endangered Pollinators citing IPBES Assessments | English (396) | Under BES-Net, Nigerian experts met in 2-day National Trialogue to implement action plans that promote uptake of IPBES Assessment findings in national policy, specifically on pollination and land degradation. | New/changed policy | Website | Experts approve national strategy on endangered pollinators | Experts approve national strategy on endangered pollinators | https://guardian.ng/property/experts-approve-national-strategy-on-endangered-pollinators/ | 2021-05-03 | USD | 356000 | National | Africa | Nigeria | Akwa Ibom | public | Britt | Curley | IPBES Secretariat | Programme Management Assistant | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||
201 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Anonymous | Nigeria developed a two-year strategy for pollinator-friendly land degradation neutrality | English (396) | 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. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | Nigeria takes stock of pollinator friendly land degradation action plan | Nigeria takes stock of pollinator friendly land degradation action plan | https://guardian.ng/property/nigeria-takes-stock-of-pollinator-friendly-land-degradation-action-plan/ | National | Africa | Nigeria | public | Yuko | Kurauchi | United Nations Development Programme | Policy Specialist | Stakeholder, Other | [email protected] | |||||||||||||
521 | Mon, 17/10/2022 | Anonymous | IPBES and IPCC Awarded 2022 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity for Contribution to Combatting Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change | English (396) | IPBES and IPCC were selected to receive the 2022 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, from a field of 116 nominations, from more than 40 countries. This news was announced in Lisbon, Portugal, on Thursday (13 October) by Dr. Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of Germany, in her capacity as President of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity jury. In making their selection, the Jury highlighted how the selection recognizes “the role of science on the front line of tackling climate change and the loss of biodiversity.” “Evidence based science”, the Jury considered, “has been fundamental not only to advancing many of the political and public actions but also the need to attribute the ‘nature of urgency’ to the ways in which the political agenda approaches the question of combatting the climate crisis”. The prize includes an award of 1 million euro to be shared between the two organizations. Speaking about the award, IPBES Executive Secretary Anne Larigauderie said: "The decision to award the 2022 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity to both IPBES and IPCC is also a powerful statement confirming that the global loss of species, destruction of ecosystems and degradation of nature’s contributions to people together represent a crisis not only of similar magnitude to that of climate change, but one which must be addressed with at least similar urgency. The unified message from both of our expert communities is that either we tackle and solve the biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis together – or we will fail on both fronts." |
New/changed action/initiative | Website | 2022 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity distinguishes IPBES and IPCC | 2022 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity distinguishes IPBES and IPCC | https://gulbenkian.pt/en/news/2022-gulbenkian-prize-for-humanity-distinguishes-ipbes-and-ipcc/ | 2022-10-13 | EUR | 500,000 | Global | Portugal | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | |||||||||||
197 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Anonymous | Citing IPBES Global Assessment Key Findings, United States Representative Deb Haaland (D-NM) Introduces '30 By 30 Resolution to Save Nature' | English (396) | U.S. Representative Deb Haaland (NM-01), joined Reps. Joe Neguse (Colo.-02), Ted Lieu (Calif.-33), Ruben Gallego (Ariz.-07), and Ed Case (Hawaii-01) to introduce the Thirty by Thirty Resolution to Save Nature to set a goal for the United States to conserve at least 30% of the ocean and land by 2030. In a press conference, Rep. Haaland said, “Globally, the loss of nature – accelerated by climate change – is putting up to one million species on the path to extinction. Conserving our lands and waters is essential to protecting humans and wildlife and stabilizing our climate, so I’m following the direction from leading scientists and introducing this resolution to set a national goal of conserving 30 percent of America’s land and oceans by 2030 to tackle this urgent crisis.” The legislation is a companion bill to S. Res. 372 introduced by Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Michael Bennett (D-Colo.) in October 2019. |
New/changed law/regulation | Website | United States Rep. Deb Haaland Press Release | United States Rep. Deb Haaland Press Release | https://haaland.house.gov/media/press-releases/haaland-sets-national-goal-conserving-30-us-lands-and-ocean-2030 | 2020-02-07 | National | Americas | United States of America | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
514 | Mon, 27/11/2023 | rspaull | British MP Uses IPBES Values Assessment in House of Commons Debate on Protecting and Restoring Nature in Advance of CBD COP15 and Beyond | English (396) | British MP, Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party) used the findings of the IPBES Values Assessment in a House of Commons debate on Protecting and Restoring Nature in Advance of CBD COP15 and Beyond to crticise the Government for having moved away from wildlife protecion conditions for farm subsidies in England "in favour of sheer food production capacity" | New/changed idea | Website | Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and Beyond | Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and Beyond | https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-07-14/debates/9DC7F266-B999-44E4-8671-4AEE79DEB979/ProtectingAndRestoringNatureCOP15AndBeyond | 2022-07-14 | National | Europe and Central Asia | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | public | Rob | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | ||||||||||||
399 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | UK Minister of State for Environment Points to IPBES Pandemics Report and Global Assessment in Response to Oral Questions in House of Lords | English (396) | Lord Goldsmith, the UK Minister of State in the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs responded to an oral question in the House of Lords that although the UK Government has not made any independent assessement of the relationship between pandemic emergence and enironmental degradation, the UK Government (through Defra) has been 'fully enagaged in the IPBES work' including both the Global Assessment and the Pandemics Report. | Other | Government response | Website | Hansard: Pandemics and Environmental Degradation - Volume 810: debated on Wednesday 24 February 2021 | Hansard: Pandemics and Environmental Degradation - Volume 810: debated on Wednesday 24 February 2021 | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2021-02-24/debates/7631D3EF-548B-44EA-8AA9-A726F8AE2741/PandemicsAndEnvironmentalDegradation?highlight=baroness%20miller#contribution-25E048EE-4206-46BF-90E1-D0FC88CD2B10 | 2021-02-24 | National | Europe and Central Asia | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||
534 | Mon, 31/10/2022 | rspaull | Extinction Rebellion Uses IPBES Findings in 'Cover the Capital' Subvertising Action in London - 10,000 Adverts | English (396) | More than 10,000 adverts on public transport in London have been replaced by posters carrying messages on the climate and ecological emergency by members of Extinction Rebellion - including messages about 1 million species at risk of extinction from the IPBES Global Assessment. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | Extinction Rebellion ‘Cover the Capital’ and replace 10,000 adverts in London | Extinction Rebellion ‘Cover the Capital’ and replace 10,000 adverts in London | https://hebdenbridgenews.com/extinction-rebellion-cover-the-capital-and-replace-10000-adverts-in-london/ | 2022-10-29 | City/Community | Europe and Central Asia | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
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public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | |||||||||||
409 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | US Members of Congress Cite Global Assessment Reintroducing Bipartisan Bill to Support Highly Endangered Species Around the World | English (396) | On World Wildlife Day, US Representatives Jared Huffman (D-CA) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL) (joined by 18 other US Representatives) re-introduced the Critically Endangered Animals Conservation Act, a bipartisan bill to support conservation efforts for highly endangered species around the world. Their media release cites the findings of the IPBES Global Assessment Report to support these efforts. The bill establishes the Critically Endangered Animals Conservation Fund; authorizes $5 million per year from 2022-2027; and focuses on IUCN Red-list species (critically endangered or endangered), not including species already covered by other multinational species funds. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | HUFFMAN, BUCHANAN INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO ADDRESS WORLD EXTINCTION CRISIS | HUFFMAN, BUCHANAN INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO ADDRESS WORLD EXTINCTION CRISIS | https://huffman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/on-world-wildlife-day-huffman-buchanan-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-address-world-extinction-crisis | 2021-03-03 | USD | 30000000 | Global | Cross-regional | United States of America | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||
319 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | Fidelity Investments Inc. Includes IPBES Global Assessment Key Findings in List of Top Three ESG Themes for 2021 | English (396) | Fidelity Investments Inc. has included key findings from the IPBES Global Assessment in its list of top Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance themes for 2021, noting "human activity has already severely altered 75% of terrestrial and 66% of marine environments, threatening the survival of around 25% of animal and plant [known] species." Although the Fidelity report is proprietary and behind a paywall, there was significant coverage of Fidelity's announcement. |
New/changed action/initiative | Website | IFA Magazine | IFA Magazine | https://ifamagazine.com/article/top-three-esg-themes-for-2021-fidelity-international/ | 2020-12-10 | Multi-organizational/network | Cross-regional | United States of America | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
320 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | Fidelity Investments Inc. Includes IPBES Global Assessment Key Findings in List of Top Three ESG Themes for 2021 | English (396) | Fidelity Investments Inc. has included key findings from the IPBES Global Assessment in its list of top Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance themes for 2021, noting "human activity has already severely altered 75% of terrestrial and 66% of marine environments, threatening the survival of around 25% of animal and plant [known] species." Although the Fidelity report is proprietary and behind a paywall, there was significant coverage of Fidelity's announcement. |
New/changed action/initiative | Website | IFA Magazine | IFA Magazine | https://ifamagazine.com/article/top-three-esg-themes-for-2021-fidelity-international/ | 2020-12-10 | Multi-organizational/network | Cross-regional | United States of America | private | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
384 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | IPBES Global Assessment 1 Million Species Key Finding Taken Up By New York City Protestors as Slogan | English (396) | New York City Extinction Rebellion organizers took to Central Park for a demonstration, with protest placards reading, among other things, '1,000,000 million species at risk of Extinction'. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | News article | News article | https://ilovetheupperwestside.com/climate-change-protestors-arrested-climbing-columbus-circle-globe/ | 2020-09-07 | Multi-organizational/network | Americas | United States of America | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
419 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | Poparco cites IPBES's work as Foundational Evidence in new Private Sector Publication on the Role of Business in Biodiversity Protection | English (396) | Proparco, a subsidiary of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) devoted to private sector funding in 80 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East identified IPBES's work as the foundational evidence about the priority that the private sector needs to give to biodiversity protection in a new edition of "Private Sector and Development" entitled 'Preserving Biodiversity - the Private Sector in Action". IPBES MEP Co-Chair, Luthando Dziba was also a contributing author | New/changed action/initiative | Website | https://issuu.com/objectif-developpement/docs/sp_d-35_uk | https://issuu.com/objectif-developpement/docs/sp_d-35_uk | 2021-03-22 | Multi-organizational/network | Cross-regional |
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public | Rob | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||||
587 | Fri, 17/11/2023 | Amarys Preuss | Drawing on IPBES Values Assessment, Researchers Propose Approach to Nature Based Solutions Premised on More Diverse Values of Nature – Not Solely Market-Based Mechanisms | English (396) | In an article published in PLOS Climate, a team of researchers highlight the limitations of a market-based approach to Nature Based Solutions and propose a paradigm shift opening to other values of nature as defined in the IPBES Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature Assessment. |
New/changed idea | Print Article | Going beyond market-based mechanisms to finance nature-based solutions and foster sustainable futures | Going beyond market-based mechanisms to finance nature-based solutions and foster sustainable futures | https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000169 | 2023-04-06 | Global | Cross-regional |
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public | Amarys | Preuss | IPBES | Stakeholder Engagement Officer | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | ||||||||||||
573 | Mon, 27/11/2023 | Fernando Neda | Scientists Use IPBES Conceptual Framework in Research to Address Environmental Discourse and Resource Understandings | English (396) | Researchers utilized the IPBES conceptual framework as a conceptual tool to examine and update the understanding of resource meanings and knowledge systems within historically non-sedentary societies. Researchers incorporated the concepts and methodologies outlined in the IPBES framework to analyze the connection between food customs, land knowledge, and resource understandings among non-sedentary peoples in Eurasia, specifically focusing on sturgeon aquaculture facilities in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. "This study’s expanded IPBES model meets the call of the IPBES framework for addressing environmental discourse and resource understandings which naturalize categorical distinctions," wrote the paper's authors. |
New/changed research project | Print Article | What is a resource? representing Eurasia’s pastoral/nomadic development history in the IPBES Framework for reconceptualized resource meanings | What is a resource? representing Eurasia’s pastoral/nomadic development history in the IPBES Framework for reconceptualized resource meanings | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/18793665231177719 | 2023-05-18 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | public | Fernando | Neda | IPBES | PIA | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | |||||||||||||
254 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Anonymous | Inspired by IPBES Global Assessment, Report Looks at How the Creative Sector Can Respond to the Biodiversity Crisis | English (396) | A report produced by Julie’s Bicycle and written by Chiara Badiali examines ways in which the creative sector can respond to the biodiversity crisis and was inspired by the IPBES Global Assessment. The report focuses on green infrastructure, single-use plastics, and the move away from unsustainable sources such as palm oil, with a view toward challenges in the UK and globally that relate to the arts and culture sector. |
New/changed research project | Website | Link to article | Link to article | https://juliesbicycle.com/resource-nature-biodiversity-habitats-ecosystems-2019/ | 2019-09-14 | Multi-organizational/network | Europe and Central Asia | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | private | Michelle | Hahn-Baker | IPBES | Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
370 | Wed, 28/09/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | Citing IPBES Global Assessment, New 'Global Law Alliance' Champions Wild Animals, Wild Spaces at Lewis & Clark Law School | English (396) | Noting that "the 2019 [IPBES] Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services delivered an ominous prediction: around one million species could go extinct unless we take drastic steps to transform our relationship with animals, plants, and the entire natural world,' Lewis and Clark Law School launched a new 'Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment'. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | Law and Clark Law news item | Law and Clark Law news item | https://law.lclark.edu/live/news/44320-global-law-alliance-champions-wild-animals-wild | 2020-09-22 | Organizational | Americas | United States of America | Oregon | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | |||||||||||
487 | Wed, 07/09/2022 | Fernando Neda | International Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Launches Online Course Based Partly on IPBES Global Assessment Evidence | English (396) | The Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), chaired by Michael R. Bloomberg and part of the international Financial Stability Board (FSB) established by the G20, launched a self-paced online course titled "Biodiversity-related disclosure: Understanding impacts and dependencies." Citing IPBES science and publications, particularly the five main drivers of biodiversity loss identified by the IPBES Global Assessment, the course delves into biodiversity-related corporate reporting as businesses increasingly measure, manage and disclose their organizational impacts and dependencies on biodiversity. The course aims to help participants ready their organizations by staying ahead of the risks and opportunities, helping them answer questions like "What characteristics of biodiversity require special attention from companies?" and "What should companies considering biodiversity-related disclosures do?". | New/changed action/initiative | Website | Biodiversity-related disclosure: Understanding impacts and dependencies | Biodiversity-related disclosure: Understanding impacts and dependencies | https://learn.tcfdhub.org/enrol/index.php?id=12 | 2021-12-12 | Global | private | Fernando | Neda | IPBES | PIA | Secretariat: Bonn |