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374 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | IPBES Evidence Presented at Spanish Parliament Commission of Ecological Transition Hearing | Spanish (399) | At a hearing held by the Spanish Parliament's Commission of Ecological Transition on the topic of climate change and energy transition, IPBES expert Unai Pascual presented key findings from the IPBES Global Assessment. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | YouTube Clip | YouTube Clip | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS4VBqtX_ck | 2020-09-17 | National | Europe and Central Asia | Spain | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
376 | Wed, 06/04/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | Citing IPBES Global Assessment Key Finding, The Government of Sweden Announces Green Recovery Package | English (396) | In a media release announcing a green recovery package in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Sweden cited the IPBES Global Assessment key finding that 1 million species risk extinction, noting the implications for a Swedish context. | New/changed policy | Website | Media release | Media release | https://www.government.se/press-releases/2020/09/green-recovery-will-lift-sweden-out-of-dual-crisis/ | 2020-09-16 | National | Europe and Central Asia | Sweden | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
378 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | Following IPBES Social Media Post, Tiny House Bristol Group Examines Policy/Action for 'Urban Forests' | English (396) | Following an IPBES social media post about the 'Miyawaki method' of creating pocket forests in urban spaces, the Tiny House Bristol group announced that they were looking into implementing the option for policy/action in Bristol. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | Tweet | Tweet | https://twitter.com/TinyHouseBris/status/1306151359436201985?s=20 | 2020-09-16 | City/Community | Europe and Central Asia | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
379 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | Our Fish Campaign to End Overfishing Cites IPBES Global Assessment in its Call from 300+ Scientists | English (396) | In a call from more than 300 scientists to the European Commission to end overfishing, the Our Fish group cited the IPBES Global Assessment as their first reason why they were calling on "the European Commission, European Parliament and EU member states to recognise that ecosystem-based fisheries management is critical to the health of the ocean and its capacity to respond to climate change and that fishing limits must be set accordingly." | New/changed action/initiative | Website | Our Fish - The Statement: Ending Overfishing Is Climate Action | Our Fish - The Statement: Ending Overfishing Is Climate Action | https://our.fish/news/ending-overfishing-is-climate-action-scientist-statement-of-support/ | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | European Union | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||||
380 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency Synthesis Report Takes Up IPBES Global Assessment Findings, with Implications for a Dutch Context | English (396) | The Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) published a synthesis report of global environmental assessments. While the report does mention all IPBES assessment reports, only the IPBES Global Assessment is covered within the scope of this report. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | PBL Report | PBL Report | https://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/lessons-from-global-environmental-assessments-0 | 2020-09-14 | National | Europe and Central Asia | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
381 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | Citing IPBES Global Assessment, the Greens/European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament calls for 'Radical Transformation' of Agricultural Systems | English (396) | The Greens/European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament, citing the IPBES Global Assessment, have called for 'radical transformation' of agricultural systems, particularly with regards to the EU Common Agricultural Policy. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | Greens/EFA Article | Greens/EFA Article | https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/news/radical-transformation-of-our-agricultural-system-needed-not-gmos/ | 2020-09-09 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | European Union | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
390 | Wed, 28/09/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | Following IPBES Social Media Post, Lambeth Living Streets Group in South London Examines Policy/Action for 'Urban Forests' | English (396) | Following an IPBES social media post about the 'Miyawaki method' of creating pocket forests in urban spaces, the Lambeth Living Streets group in South London announced that they were looking into implementing the option for policy/action in Lambeth. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | Tweet | Tweet | https://twitter.com/LambethLivingSt/status/1292141833515077632?s=20 | 2020-08-10 | City/Community | Europe and Central Asia | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | ||||||||||||
391 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | Norwegian Climate and Environment Minister Sveinung Rotevatns Prominently Cites IPBES Global Assessment in Speech at 2021 National Park Conference on National and International Biodiversity Agenda | Norwegian (478) | In a speech by the Norwegian Climate and Environment Minister Sveinung Rotevatns at the 2021 Norwegian National Park Conference, Minister Rotevatns discussed the IPBES Global Assessment at length, setting the scene for four key ways in which Norway is "paving the way forward." "- Firstly, the binding agreement Norway has with the EU to achieve the climate goals by 2030 and meet the annual climate budget starts. We must increase CO2 uptake in forests and areas and reduce emissions to get there. - Secondly, the current global goals for biodiversity - Aichi goals - will be replaced by new global goals for preserving nature and using it in a sustainable way. - Thirdly , we are entering the decisive decade where we will reach the sustainability goals for the UN in 2030. - Fourth, the UN's decade of nature restoration begins." |
New/changed action/initiative | Website | Sveinung Rotevatn's speech at the National Park Conference 2021 | Sveinung Rotevatn's speech at the National Park Conference 2021 | https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/sveinung-rotevatns-tale-pa-nasjonalparkkonferansen-2021/id2834889/ | 2021-02-16 | National | Europe and Central Asia | Norway | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
392 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | In Light of IPBES Global Assessment, French Association for Standardization (AFNOR) Develops Biodiversity Standards Approach for Organizations | French (397) | Sylvain Boucherand, chair of the French Association for Standardization's (AFNOR) Biodiversity Standardization Commission, in an interview about the new biodiversity standards for organizations created by AFNOR, remarked on the key role which the IPBES Global Assessment had in changing the discourse around biodiversity and creating demand for standards such as AFNOR's. The standards are likely to be taken up by many organizations and businesses in France and elsewhere, as AFNOR is a quasi-public institutions for norms. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | Sylvain Boucherand Interview | Sylvain Boucherand Interview | https://www.affiches-parisiennes.com/afnor-lance-la-premiere-norme-demarche-biodiversite-des-organisations-11830.html | 2021-01-14 | National | Europe and Central Asia | France | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
393 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | IPBES Pandemics Report Featured Prominently in Fridtjof Nansen Institute Policy Brief | English (396) | In a policy brief for the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway, FNI researchers and analysts incorporated many findings from the IPBES Pandemics Report into their report on "Global governance of health and nature in the wake of COVID-19. Attentive to the role of China and to poverty perspectives". | New/changed action/initiative | Website | Policy brief | Policy brief | https://www.fni.no/news/one-health-for-human-and-nature-to-fight-pandemics?s=09 | 2021-02-17 | Multi-organizational/network | Europe and Central Asia | Norway | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
396 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | IPBES Global Assessment Findings Taken Up and Adapted in Guide on "Upscaling Corporate Solutions for Biodiversity" by French 'Enterprises pour l'environnement' Group | English (396) | EpE, Enterprises pour l'environnement, has published a new guide on "Upscaling Corporate Solutions for Biodiversity", which refers to IPBES findings numerous times, and specifically which takes up the primary drivers of biodiversity and examines how companies can integrate mechanism to avoid or reduce biodiversity pressures into their corporate strategies. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | EpE Report | EpE Report | http://www.epe-asso.org/en/upscaling-corporate-solutions-for-biodiversity-february-2021/ | 2021-02-23 | Multi-organizational/network | Europe and Central Asia | France | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
398 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Refers to Global Assessment Finding in Announcing as First UK Zoological Society to Join EU Commission Coalition | English (396) | The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland quotes the findings of the IPBES Global Assessment about a million species at risk of extinciton in it's annoucement joining the European Commission Global Coalition #UnitedForBiodiversity ahead of CBD #COP15 | New/changed network | Website | https://www.thenational.scot/news/19123009.royal-zoological-society-scotland-first-biodiversity-pledge/ | https://www.thenational.scot/news/19123009.royal-zoological-society-scotland-first-biodiversity-pledge/ | 2021-02-27 | State/Provincial | Europe and Central Asia | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Scotland | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||
401 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | Paper Applies IPBES Conceptual Framework Multiple Values Approach to Analysis of Agroforestry Landscapes in North East Europe | English (396) | This paper identifies and compares values that people attribute to agroforestry landscapes across North-Eastern Europe, using case studies in Sweden, Latvia, Belarus, and the Russian Federation. We apply the multiple-value approach developed for the conceptual framework of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services to an assess-ment of agroforestry landscapes. | New/changed research project | Print Article | Perceived benefits from agroforestry landscapes across North-Eastern Europe: What matters and for whom? | Perceived benefits from agroforestry landscapes across North-Eastern Europe: What matters and for whom? | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204621000074 | 2021-05-01 | Subregional | Europe and Central Asia | Belarus, Latvia, Russian Federation, Sweden | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
403 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | Dutch Organic Agriculture and Food Organization Bionext Uses IPBES Global Assessment in Call for Consumers to 'Vote' with their Shopping Baskets | Dutch (425) | Michaël Wilde, Director of Bionext, a Dutch organic agriculture and food organization calls on consumers, in the context of the upcoming Dutch general election, to vote every day 'with their shopping baskets' - citing the IPBES Global Assessment Report to make the case against 'business as usual' | New article | Website | Vote with your shopping basket every day | Vote with your shopping basket every day | http://translate.google.com/translate?langpair=nl%7Cen&u=https://www.biojournaal.nl/article/9298400/stem-iedere-dag-met-je-boodschappenmandje/ | 2021-03-01 | National | Europe and Central Asia | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
416 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Anonymous | French Environment Ministry Uses Global Assessment Finding to Drive Public Consultation on France's Biodiversity Strategy | French (397) | The Environment Ministry of France has opened a public consultation about the national biodiversity strategy, using the finding from the Global Assessment about a million species at risk of extinction to mobilise engagement. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | https://twitter.com/Ecologie_Gouv/status/1371444327742853125 | https://twitter.com/Ecologie_Gouv/status/1371444327742853125 | 2021-03-15 | National | Europe and Central Asia | France | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||||
417 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | Alicante City Councillors Present Declaration to Develop Local Environment Education Plan Citing IPBES Reports for Urgency | Spanish (399) | The municipal group of Compromís in the Alicante City Council has presented an institutional declaration to the March plenary session to develop a local environmental education plan that ranges from Primary to Baccalaureate, citing the IPBES Reports and Global Assessment findings to underscore the urgency of their call. | New/changed policy | Website | Compromís proposes a local environmental education plan at all educational levels | Compromís proposes a local environmental education plan at all educational levels | https://www.informacion.es/alicante/2021/03/13/compromis-propone-plan-local-educacion-42049619.html | 2021-03-13 | City/Community | Europe and Central Asia | Spain | Alacant | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||
422 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | Con Huesca Podemos Equo group in Huesca, Spain uses IPBES Evidence to Urge City Council to make a Bee Friendly City | Spanish (399) | The Con Huesca Podemos Equo municipal group in Huesca, Spain has requested the Huesca City Council to declare the city a "Bee Friendly City" - addressing loss of habitats, invasive species, climate change and the use of pesticides - citing the IPBES Pollination Assessment as evidence. The City "has promised to study and put on the table the proposal of our group and debate it in the next commission on the Environment." | New/changed commitment | Website | Podemos Equo asks the City Council to make Huesca 'Bees Friendly City' | Podemos Equo asks the City Council to make Huesca 'Bees Friendly City' | https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/aragon/huesca/2021/03/12/podemos-equo-pide-al-ayuntamiento-que-huesca-sea-ciudad-amiga-de-las-abejas-1477307.html | 2021-03-12 | City/Community | Europe and Central Asia | Spain | Aragon | public | Rob | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||
423 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | NRW Volksinitiative Artenvielfalt cites IPBES Global Assessment to Motivate for a Climate and Nature Strike | German (435) | The NRW Volksinitiative Artenvielfalt ("biodiversity popular initiative" in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia), supported by the Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), the Landesgemeinschaft Naturschutz und Umwelt NRW (LNU) and the Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) cited the IPBES Global Assessment in calling on social media for a "climate strike" - a public demonstration calling for action on climate change and biodiversity loss. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | https://twitter.com/ArtenvielfaltVI/status/1370356830459822083 | https://twitter.com/ArtenvielfaltVI/status/1370356830459822083 | 2021-03-12 | State/Provincial | Europe and Central Asia | Germany | North Rhine-Westphalia | public | Rob | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
424 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Anonymous | Article uses IPBES Conceptual Framework and Nature's Contributions to People to Explore Reconfigurations of a Socio-Ecological System in the French Alps | English (396) | This article hypothesises that adaptation to economic, policy and climate changes have occurred through changes in the co-production of nature's contributions to people (NCP) in a social-ecological system in Pays de la Meije, in the French Alps. It does so drawing explicitly on the IPBES Conceptual Framework and the work of IPBES on NCP. | New/changed research project | Website | Historical reconfigurations of a social–ecological system adapting to economic, policy and climate changes in the French Alps | Historical reconfigurations of a social–ecological system adapting to economic, policy and climate changes in the French Alps | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-021-01760-8 | 2021-03-24 | City/Community | Europe and Central Asia | France | Hautes-Alpes | public | Mr. | Rob | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn |