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442 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Anonymous | A Multi-Author Policy Perspective Paper Draws on IPBES Assessment Findings to Recommend Action in Priority Areas in Post-2020 Agenda | English (396) | Drawing on the IPBES findings, this policy perspective, published in Conservation Letters, A Journal for the Society of Conservation of Biology, discusses actions in four priority areas to inform the post-2020 agenda: (1) Increasing funding for conservation; (2) redirecting incentives for sustainability; (3) creating an enabling regulatory environment; and (4) reforming metrics to assess biodiversity impacts and progress toward sustainable and just goals. The four key areas discussed provide opportunities for governments, businesses and civil society to work together to "implement actions that combine short-term impacts with structural change to shift economic systems away from a fixation with growth toward human and ecological well-being". | New/changed idea | Website | Enabling transformative economic change in the post-2020 biodiversity agenda | Enabling transformative economic change in the post-2020 biodiversity agenda | https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12805 | 2021-05-03 | Global |
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public | Britt | Curley | IPBES | Assistant Programme Management-Communications | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||||
464 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | bcurley1012 | G20 Leaders Note the Contribution of IPBES Pandemics Report in a Preamble Following the G-20 Summit in Italy | In a preamble following the G-20 summit in Italy, G20 leaders state their commitment to addressing global poverty, health, economic and environmental challenges. Leaders note the scientific contribution of the IPBES Pandemics and commit to integrate the 'One Health' approach and other holistic approaches in all relevant policies and decision-making processes, also to address challenges including food security, zoonotic spillover and future pandemics. | New/changed action/initiative | Print Article | G20 Environment Communiqué Final | G20 Environment Communiqué Final | 2021-07-22 | Global | Cross-regional |
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Britt | Curley | IPBES | Assistant Programme Management - Communications | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||||||
480 | Wed, 24/08/2022 | Fernando Neda | UNEP-WCMC Guidance on National Ecosystem Assessments Based on IPBES Approach | English (396) | UNEP-WCMC has prduced guideline on how the IPBES approach to assessments can be used at the national level to also encourage the implementation of national ecosystem assessments. | New/changed technique | Website | National Ecosystem Assessments to Support Implementation of Convention on Biological Diversity | National Ecosystem Assessments to Support Implementation of Convention on Biological Diversity | https://www.cbd.int/article/unep-wcmc-nea-implementation | 2021-11-23 | Global | public | Fernando | Neda | IPBES | PIA | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||||
481 | Wed, 24/08/2022 | Anonymous | EUR 50 Million Nature for Health (N4H) Initiative on Preventing Pandemics Launched Based Partly on IPBES Report on Biodiversity and Pandemics | English (396) | Through an initial contribution of EUR 50 million from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) via Germany's International Climate Initiative (IKI), the Nature for Health (N4H) Initiative has been launched to prevent future pandemics by fostering locally developed and integrated approaches to secure the health of people, animals and the environment. The initiative was partly based on the findings of the IPBES Workshop Report on Biodiversity and Pandemics, and was mentioned by Minister Steffie Lemke at the opening ceremony of #IPBES9 in Bonn in July 2022. N4H brings together the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and EcoHealth Alliance. | New/changed action/initiative | Other | 2022-08-23 | USD | 50000000 | Global |
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public | Rob | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||||
485 | Wed, 07/09/2022 | Fernando Neda | New Traffic, IUCN and USAID Report Highlights IPBES Science and the Platform's Calls for Action | English (396) | The December 2021 Situation Analysis on Social Behaviour Change Messaging on Wildlife Trade and Zoonotic Disease Risks cites IPBES science, particularly its findings about the "impact of direct exploitation on ecosystems and biodiversity" published in the IPBES Global Assessment. | New/changed research project | Other | Traffic 2021 Situation Analysis | Traffic 2021 Situation Analysis | https://www.traffic.org/publications/reports/situation-analysis-social-and-behaviour-change-messaging-on-wildlife-trade-and-zoonotic-disease-risks/ | 2021-12-08 | Global |
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public | Fernando | Neda | IPBES | PIA | 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 | |||||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||||
490 | Wed, 14/09/2022 | Anonymous | Ernst & Young, Microsoft and Earth Knowledge Leverage IPBES Global Assessment Findings in New Joint Report on Financial Services for Conservation, Sustainability and Biodiversity | English (396) | Leveraging findings from the IPBES Global Assessment (2019), a new report by EY, Microsoft, and Earth Knowledge warns that the financial industry runs the danger of doing enormous harm to both itself and businesses across the world if it doesn't utilize its "huge influence" to halt behaviors that hurt the environment. The report states that the largest investment banks in the world provided $2.6 trillion in loans and underwriting services related to the destruction of nature in 2019 alone. The analysis, however, claims that there is still hope. It highlights large, unrealized profit prospects for the financial services industry related to biodiversity, sustainability, and conservation. The financial industry may benefit from an estimated $800 billion annual biodiversity funding gap by fostering nature's resilience, productivity, and adaptation. If the world is to reach its climate change, biodiversity, and land degradation commitments, this investment must triple in real terms by 2030 and quadruple by 2050. | New/changed research project | Website | Financial sector has ‘great power’ to stop biodiversity loss and reap the rewards of being ‘nature positive’, report reveals | Financial sector has ‘great power’ to stop biodiversity loss and reap the rewards of being ‘nature positive’, report reveals | https://news.microsoft.com/en-gb/2021/10/13/financial-sector-has-great-power-to-stop-biodiversity-loss-and-reap-the-rewards-of-being-nature-positive-report-reveals/ | 2021-10-13 | Global | private | Fernando | Neda | IPBES | PIA | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | ||||||||||||||
496 | Wed, 28/09/2022 | Anonymous | Citing IPBES Findings, Pantone and Tealeaves Call Attention To Biodiversity Threat With New Fossil-Inspired Color | English (396) | Citing IPBES' finding that over one million species are under the threat of extinction, global colour authority Pantone Color Institute (PCI), in partnership with tea brand Tealeaves, announced a new Pantone color based on the world’s oldest found pigment and meant to draw attention to biodiversity loss. With the "Pantone Color of Biodiversity," they look to support the United Nations Biodiversity endeavor, the World Biodiversity Forum, and 30x30 initiatives to protect at least 30 percent of the Earth's land and oceans by 2030. Launched on the first day of the 2022 meeting of the UN General Assembly, the Pantone Color of Biodiversity, a bright pink hue, calls attention to the variety of species and ecosystems that underpin the health of the planet and viability of life, and the alarming rate at which the world is losing them. The color represents the evolution of biodiversity and aims to bring awareness to biodiversity loss, a rising global environmental threat. Based on pigments made from 1.1-billion-year-old marine sedimentary rocks of the Taoudeni Basin in Mauritania, West Africa, and discovered by Dr. Nur Gueneili, Pantone’s new color results from microscopic fossils of chlorophyll produced by ancient species living in an ocean that no longer exists. |
New/changed action/initiative | Website | Pantone and Tealeaves Call Attention To Biodiversity Threat With New Fossil-Inspired Color | Pantone and Tealeaves Call Attention To Biodiversity Threat With New Fossil-Inspired Color | https://thedieline.com/blog/2022/9/15/pantone-and-tealeaves-call-attention-to-biodiversity-threat-with-new-fossil-inspired-color? | 2022-09-14 | Global | private | Fernando | Neda | IPBES | PIA | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | ||||||||||||||
500 | Wed, 28/09/2022 | rspaull | Research Uses IPBES Nature Futures Framework to Analyse Conservation Decision-Making Under Climate Change | English (396) | A group of experts convened to discuss using the Nature Futures Framework developed by the IPBES Task Force on Scenarios and Models as a tool to inform management in social-ecological systems facing climate change. The research focused on 3 illustrative case studies from the global South across a range of climate change impacts at different ecological levels. | New article | Website | Managing biodiversity in the Anthropocene: discussing the Nature Futures Framework as a tool for adaptive decision-making for nature under climate change | Managing biodiversity in the Anthropocene: discussing the Nature Futures Framework as a tool for adaptive decision-making for nature under climate change | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-022-01200-4 | 2022-06-24 | Global |
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public | Rob | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | |||||||||||||
502 | Thu, 29/09/2022 | rspaull | Aural Artist Aligns Soundscape Film on Silence as Sound of Extinction with IPBES Global Assessment Findings | English (396) | Aural artist, Thomas Hull (aka Missing Wolf) has created a spectral soundscape film to demonstrate how wild habitats are falling silent around the globe as a result of species extinctions - which he direcly correlates to the findings of the IPBES Global Assessment. The film can be viewed at https://youtu.be/NOPkligFrMU | New/changed action/initiative | Website | The Sound of Extinction is Silence | The Sound of Extinction is Silence | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353761910_The_Sound_of_Extinction_is_Silence | 2021-07-21 | Global | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | ||||||||||||||
505 | Thu, 29/09/2022 | rspaull | Building on IPBES-IPCC Joint Workshop Report Researchers Explore Options for Transformative Governance of Complex Biodiversity-Climate-Society Interactions | English (396) | Writing in the journal BioScience, researchers draw on the report of the first IPBES-IPCC Joint Workshop on Biodiversity and Climate Change to explore how transformative governance of complex biodiversity–climate–society interactions can be achieved. | New article | Website | Governing for Transformative Change across the Biodiversity–Climate–Society Nexus | Governing for Transformative Change across the Biodiversity–Climate–Society Nexus | https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/72/7/684/6593160?login=true#.YyAjNUrqOw0.twitter | 2022-06-01 | Global |
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public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | |||||||||||||
509 | Fri, 30/09/2022 | rspaull | Biodiversity and Conservation Journal Launches Call for Papers for Special Issue to Contribute to IPBES Work on Transformative Change | English (396) | The Journal Biodiversity and Conservation has launched a call for submission of paper to be published in a special edtion in late 2023 - ahead of the 10th session of the IPBES Plenary - to contrinbute to the work of IPBES on transformative change and later to be synthesized with the IPBES Transformative Change assessment report. | New/changed research project | Website | CALL FOR PAPERS: Transformative change | CALL FOR PAPERS: Transformative change | https://www.springer.com/journal/10531/updates/19682276 | 2022-08-15 | Global | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | ||||||||||||||
511 | Mon, 03/10/2022 | rspaull | KfW Development Bank's Develoment Finance Forum to Focus on Links Between Climate and Biodiversity Using IPBES Research Findings | English (396) | German development bank KfW will focus its 2022 Development Finance Forum on links between climate and biodiversity, using among others, findings from the joint IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop on biodiversity and climate change. Experts from around the world will take part in Frankfurt from 6-7 October in a dialogue about how to bring the two challenges closer together at both the political level and at the level of implementation. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | Protecting both nature and the climate | Protecting both nature and the climate | https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/climate-change-and-loss-biodiversity-are-mutually-reinforcing-and-kfw-taking-account-its | 2022-10-06 | 2022-10-07 | Global | Cross-regional | public | Rob | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | ||||||||||||
512 | Tue, 04/10/2022 | rspaull | BES-Net Uses IPBES Land Degradation Assessment to Produce Infographic Posters on Land Restoration and Indigenous Peoples | English (396) | To mark Indigenous Peoples Day, BES-Net has used key messages from the IPBES Land Degradation Assessement to create and promote two infographic posters to raise awareness about issues of land restoration and indigenous peoples | New/changed action/initiative | Other | Back to Our Roots How Land Degradation Particularly Affects Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities | Back to Our Roots How Land Degradation Particularly Affects Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities | https://www.besnet.world/back-to-our-roots-how-land-degradation-particularly-affects-indigenous-peoples-and-local-communities/ | 2022-08-10 | Global | public | Rob | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | ||||||||||||||
513 | Tue, 04/10/2022 | rspaull | The Lancet Planetary Health Journal Issues Editorial in Response to IPBES Sustainable Use of Wild Species Assessment Linking to Planetary Health Perspectives | English (396) | The Lancet Planetary Health Journal issued an editorial responding to the release of the IPBES Sustainable Use of Wild Species Assessment Report, making the link to the importance of a planetary health perspective in contributing to the fuller accounting of the values of nature. | New article | Website | Reaching a balance with wild species | Reaching a balance with wild species | https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00177-2/fulltext#%20 | 2022-08-06 | Global |
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public | Rob | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | |||||||||||||
520 | Mon, 17/10/2022 | Fernando Neda | IPBES Conceptual Framework Offered as Best Approach to Understand Effective Pollinator Health Strategies | English (396) | A new opinion piece published by The Royal Society proposes the use of the IPBES conceptual framework "to link issues and identify critical gaps in both understanding and action for pollinators." In the article, authors Jane C. Stout and Lynn V. Dicks state that using the IPBES conceptual framework "reveals the centrality of addressing the recognized indirect drivers of decline, such as patterns of global trade and demography, which are frequently overlooked in current pollinator conservation efforts". The authors use the framework to emphasize the role of people and institutions in pollinator conservation. "To reverse drivers of decline, pollinator conservation strategies must take action on institutional indirect drivers of decline. Almost none of the strategic efforts currently in place do this explicitly," write Stout and Dicks. The opinion piece was published in the June 2022 edition (Volume 377, Issue 1853) of the journal 'Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences'. The overall theme of this edition is ‘Natural processes influencing pollinator health: from chemistry to landscapes’. |
New article | Website | From science to society: implementing effective strategies to improve wild pollinator health | From science to society: implementing effective strategies to improve wild pollinator health | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2021.0165 | 2022-05-02 | Global | public | Fernando | Neda | IPBES | PIA | Secretariat: Bonn | [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] | |||||||||||
526 | Wed, 19/10/2022 | rspaull | Researchers Use IPBES Approach to Analyse Expected Impact of Invasive Alien Species on Global Extinctions | English (396) | Researchers have heeded the approach of IPBES to address ecological and evolutionary components in conservation assessments in their analysis of expected impacts of invasive alien species on global extinctions. | New/changed research project | Website | Looming extinctions due to invasive species | Looming extinctions due to invasive species | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcb.15771 | 2021-06-10 | Global | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | ||||||||||||||
529 | Fri, 21/10/2022 | rspaull | Researchers Use IPBES Approach to Values to Revisit Positive Impacts of Non-Native Species | English (396) | Using the IPBES apparoach of a comprehensive range of nature-based values, researchers from UNIGE and Brown University have made the case for reevaluating maligned non-native species - specifically that the contribution of some of these species can also be positive. ’’Positive impacts of non-native species are often explained as serendipitous surprises — the sort of thing that people might expect to happen every once in a while, in special circumstances,’’ says Dov Sax, a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology at Brown University. ’’Our new paper argues that the positive impacts of non-native species are neither unexpected nor rare, but instead common, important and often of large magnitude.’’ Good for people and nature. The study borrows from a recent framework developed by IPBES, an international platform for the assessment of biodiversity and its ecosystem services, which examines the benefits of biodiversity for people and nature, and applies it to non-native species, showing the diverse, frequent and important ways that non-native species provide positive value for people and nature. |
New/changed research project | Website | Non-native species are also beneficial to the ecosystem | Non-native species are also beneficial to the ecosystem | https://newsexplorer.net/non-native-species-are-also-beneficial-to-the-ecosystem-s4708985.html | 2022-10-06 | Global |
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public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] |