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563 | Wed, 19/04/2023 | CMousnier | New Natural Language AI Chat Tool Launched Focused on Climate & Biodiversity Based on Data from IPBES & IPCC Among Others | French (397) | Ekimetrics, a French company specialising in artificial intelligence and data management, recently unveiled "Climate Q&A", an AI that uses the same principle as ChatGPT but to answer questions about the climate or the environment based on scientific reports such as those of the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and IPBES. Climate Q&A aims to make scientific reports on climate issues accessible. Moreover, the IPCC reports, but also those of the International Energy Agency, the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) are among the documents integrated into the AI for its research. Ekimetrics replied to an IPBES query that that do plan to add other existing and to-be-published IPBES Reports to the database in future. |
New/changed action/initiative | Website | Climate Q and A : Un nouveau ChatGPT dédié aux questions sur le climat | Climate Q and A : Un nouveau ChatGPT dédié aux questions sur le climat | https://leseclaireurs.canalplus.com/articles/comprendre/climate-q-and-a-le-nouveau-chatgpt-dedie-aux-questions-sur-le-climat | 2023-04-18 | Global | private | Charlotte | Mousnier | IPBES | Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | ||||||||||||||
215 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Anonymous | WMO Cites IPBES Global Assessment in Statement on the State of the Global Climate 2019 | English (396) | The World Meteorological Organization cites findings of the IPBES Global Assessment in its Statement on the State of the Global Climate 2019. |
New/changed research project | Website | WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate 2019 | WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate 2019 | https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10211 | 2020-03-20 | Global | Cross-regional | public | Michelle | Hahn-Baker | IPBES | Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||||
539 | Mon, 06/02/2023 | Fernando Neda | Internationally Renowned Artists Gillie And Marc To Create Biggest Sculpture In Singapore To Raise Awareness about Wildlife Extinction | English (396) | On National Endangered Species Day 2023 (19th May), Singapore will play host to the largest sculpture in the world - Love The Last March. Depicting the greatest animal march on earth planet, it aims to bring awareness to the massive rate of wildlife extinction and to help save the animal kingdom. The sculpture will be made by internationally renowned artists, Gillie and Marc, who have been bringing awareness to wildlife through their art for decades. According to the article, '1 million species are at risk of extinction because of habitat loss, about 85% of all wildlife," a finding of the IPBES Global Assessment. |
New/changed action/initiative | Website | Internationally Renowned Artists, Gillie And Marc Are Back With Their Biggest Sculpture In The Coming 'Love The Last March' In Singapore | Internationally Renowned Artists, Gillie And Marc Are Back With Their Biggest Sculpture In The Coming 'Love The Last March' In Singapore | https://lifevoyageurs.com/news/internationally-renowned-artists-gillie-and-marc-are-back-with-their-biggest-sculpture-in-the-coming-love-the-last-march-in-singapore/383418 | 2023-05-19 | 2024-05-18 | National | Asia-Pacific | Singapore | public | Fernando | Neda | IPBES | PIA | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | |||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||
315 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | Nature's Contributions Concept Applied in Paper on "Decision-making for nature's contributions to people in the Cape Floristic Region: the role of values, rules and knowledge" | English (396) | A new paper in Sustainability Science builds on the Nature's Contributions to People concept regarding a case study on "Decision-making for nature's contributions to people in the Cape Floristic Region: the role of values, rules and knowledge" | New/changed research project | Website | Springer | Springer | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-020-00896-6 | 2021-01-08 | Subregional | Africa | South Africa | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
402 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | IPBES Approach to Nature's Contributions to People used to Examine Enhancing Synergies in NCP in Landscapes and Seascapes | English (396) | New article draws on IPBES Global Assessment and specifically the IPBES conceptual framework's treatment of nature's contributions to people (NCP) to investigate whether synergies in NCP exist within socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS). The GEF-Satoyama Project (http://www.thegef.org/projects) worked with ten sub-grant projects in biodiversity hotspots, which represent the global frontiers of highly endemic biological communities under accelerating anthropogenic threats. | New article | Website | Enhancing synergies in nature’s contributions to people in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes | Enhancing synergies in nature’s contributions to people in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-021-00927-w | 2021-03-01 | Multi-organizational/network | Cross-regional | Colombia, Comoros, Ecuador, India, Madagascar, Mauritius, Myanmar, Peru, Seychelles, Thailand | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | ||||||||||||||
445 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Anonymous | Paper Cites IPBES in Case Study Seeking to Identify Link Between Potential Futures and the Values Underpinning Them in Protected Land Areas in Czechia | English (396) | Drawing on IPBES Methodological Assessment Report's "future thinking", an approach helping people to understand and tackle complex sustainability, this study aims to address the gap between understanding the scope of the root causes of human decisions and actions, and the link between anthropogenic drivers and their potential future impacts on nature in local regions. Through the design and implementation of a local-scale participatory value-based scenario building process, this study explores the relationships between (1) multiple types of values, (2) actions taken by different types of stakeholders, and (3) their potential impacts on nature, nature’s contributions to people (including ecosystem services) and good quality of life. This paper summarizes the results and lessons learnt from an array of value-based participatory scenario-building processes in the context of Protected Land Areas in a Czechia, in Central Europe, and reflects on the utility of value-based participatory scenario planning as a means to strengthen sustainable governance. | New/changed idea | Website | Linking multiple values of nature with future impacts: value-based participatory scenario development for sustainable landscape governance | Linking multiple values of nature with future impacts: value-based participatory scenario development for sustainable landscape governance | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-021-00953-8 | 2021-05-12 | Europe and Central Asia | Czechia | public | Britt | Curley | IPBES | Assistant Programme Management-Communications | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||||
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] | |||||||||||||
555 | Sat, 29/04/2023 | Fernando Neda | Protocol Developed to Operationalize IPBES Nature Futures Framework (NFF) by Combining it with Multi-Objective Optimization | English (396) | Through a case study of a rural landscape in northeastern Japan, researchers have developed a protocol with three specifications for operationalizing the IPBES Nature Futures Framework (NFF) in a landscape scenario analysis using a multi-objective optimization framework composed of: (1) exploring nature-positive futures, (2) seeking alternative pathways for targets satisfying visions of plural values, and (3) screening key direct drivers to achieve the targets. This study modeled the NFF-based scenarios by applying the concept of multi-objective optimization and a landscape change model to explore desirable futures, seek targets in the NFF state space, and screen response options for reaching these targets in the Bekambeushi River watershed in northeastern Japan. The protocol identified multiple, but few nature-positive and Pareto optimal strategies that satisfied NFF visions; nature-positive, but not Pareto optimal strategies; and non-nature-positive strategies. The protocol also identified key response options to achieve three different NFF value perspectives in the case study area: (1) clear or selective cutting in forestry and (2) solar PV installation on abandoned pastureland in agriculture and energy sectors. |
New/changed research project | Website | Modeling desirable futures at local scale by combining the nature futures framework and multi-objective optimization | Modeling desirable futures at local scale by combining the nature futures framework and multi-objective optimization | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-023-01301-8 | 2023-03-10 | National | Asia-Pacific | Japan |
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public | Fernando | Neda | IPBES | PIA | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | |||||||||||
603 | Mon, 27/11/2023 | Fernando Neda | Researchers Operationalize IPBES Nature Futures Framework to Catalyze Development of Nature-Future Scenarios | English (396) | Members of the IPBES task force on scenarios and models have provided an example of how the Nature Futures Framework can be implemented for the development of illustrative narratives representing a diversity of desirable nature futures: information that can be used to assess and develop scenarios and models whilst acknowledging the underpinning value perspectives on nature. To explore the interdependence between narratives, and therefore their potential to be translated into scenarios and models, six narratives developed were assessed around three areas of the transformative change debate, specifically, (1) land sparing vs. land sharing, (2) Half Earth vs. Whole Earth conservation, and (3) green growth vs. post-growth economic development. The paper concludes with an assessment of how the Nature Futures Framework could be used to assist in developing and articulating transformative pathways towards desirable nature futures. The article is part of the Sustainability Science journal's Special Feature: Operationalizing the Nature Futures Framework to Catalyze the Development of Nature-Future Scenarios. |
New/changed research project | Print Article | Bringing the Nature Futures Framework to life: creating a set of illustrative narratives of nature futures | Bringing the Nature Futures Framework to life: creating a set of illustrative narratives of nature futures | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-023-01316-1 | 2023-05-04 | Global | public | Fernando | Neda | IPBES | PIA | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | ||||||||||||||
610 | Wed, 06/12/2023 | Fernando Neda | To Strengthen Assessments of Freshwater Ecosystems, Researchers Employ IPBES Nature Futures Framework | English (396) | A new article published in the Sustainability Science journal explores how the Nature Futures Framework (NFF) may be implemented for improved assessment of freshwater ecosystems. In the article, researchers outline how the NFF and its main value perspectives can be translated to freshwater systems and explore what desirable freshwater futures would look like from three perspectives (Nature for Nature, Nature for Society, and Nature as Culture). Second, they also review scenario strategies and current models to examine how freshwater modelling can be linked to the NFF in terms of its aims and outcomes. In doing so, authors aimed to identify which aspects of the NFF framework are not yet captured in current freshwater models and suggest possible ways to bridge them. "We believe that the knowledge gaps that exist should be bridged by mobilising existing freshwater research communities and projects to model nature futures for freshwater ecosystems. We see the development of the Nature Futures Framework under IPBES as an opportunity for freshwater modelling communities from across the world to strengthen the representation of freshwater nature and biodiversity in global environmental governance," wrote the authors, extensively building on IPBES science throughout the publication. "Current freshwater ecosystem models can represent Nature for Nature, partially represent Nature for Society, and represent limited or indirect aspects of Nature as Culture," they concluded. |
New article | Website | New paths for modelling freshwater nature futures | New paths for modelling freshwater nature futures | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-023-01341-0#Sec1 | 2023-07-03 | Global | public | Fernando | Neda | IPBES | PIA | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | ||||||||||||||
237 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Anonymous | Environmental Researchers Draw on IPBES Conceptual Framework in Recommendation on How Brazilian Academy Can Better Incorporate ILK | English (396) | Two environmental researchers, Fronika Claziena Agatha de Wit and Paula Martins de Freitas, drew on the Conceptual Framework of IPBES while making recommendations on how the Brazilian Academy can better incorporate and value the knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the Amazon to contribute to the active role of these peoples in governance. The researchers suggested that the Brazilian Academy could draw on the example of IPBES “to bring together governments, non-governmental organizations, universities scientific organizations and traditional communities to assess critically the relevant information about the biodiversity and the ecosystemic services [and as] a consequence…[value] all knowledge systems.” |
New/changed idea | Website | Interview with researchers | Interview with researchers | https://mundorama.net/?p=26099 | 2019-09-25 | National | Americas | Brazil | private | Michelle | Hahn-Baker | IPBES | Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
346 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | Citing IPBES Global Assessment, Government of Kenya Announces Participation in High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People for Ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework under the Convention on Biologi | English (396) | Citing IPBES Global Assessment, the Government of Kenya announced its participation in the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People for an ambitious global biodiversity framework under the Convention on Biological Diversity. In a statement during the launch, key findings from the IPBES Global Assessment were cited as reason to make 2021 “an urgent year for action on biodiversity and the climate”. |
New/changed action/initiative | Website | Nation Kenya | Nation Kenya | https://nation.africa/kenya/healthy-nation/kenya-part-of-new-global-deal-to-save-animals-plants-3279682 | 2021-02-10 | Global | Cross-regional | Kenya | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||||
333 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | IPBES Global Assessment cited in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Natural Resources written testimony by Prof. Jane Lubchenco | English (396) | In a virtual legislative hearing on H.R. 8632, the Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act, and related Natural Resources Committee-referred bills, Prof. Jane Lubchenco's written testimony cited the IPBES Global Assessment. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | Testimony | Testimony | https://naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Lubchenco%20Testimony%20UPDATED%20FC%20Leg%20Hrg%2011.17.20.pdf | 2020-11-27 | National | Americas | United States of America | public | Patrick | Tonissen | IPBES | Communications Consultant | 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] | ||||||||||||||
227 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | Anonymous | Microsoft Cites IPBES Global Assessment in Announcement of Funding for Shazam4Nature | English (396) | In an article announcing that Microsoft will fund the Shazam4Nature project, created at the EarthLab by Microsoft Berlin and Fraunhofer CeRRI, Microsoft cites key findings from the IPBES Global Assessment. According to Microsoft, the IPBES findings show that “we need to act urgently”. Shazam4Nature is an “acoustic biodiversity monitoring system that captures and records animal sounds through sensitive microphones, and evaluates the acoustic signals using artificial intelligence (AI) in the Azure cloud”. The project is a part of Microsoft’s AI for Earth program. |
New/changed investment | Website | Microsoft website | Microsoft website | https://news.microsoft.com/europe/2019/08/13/protecting-biodiversity-with-shazam4nature/ | 2019-08-01 | Multi-organizational/network | Cross-regional | private | Michelle | Hahn-Baker | IPBES | Consultant | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||||
504 | Thu, 29/09/2022 | rspaull | BNP Paribas Senior Analyst Points to IPBES Work in Raising Awareness on Biodiversity Crisis Among Governments, Companies and Investors | English (396) | BNP Paribas Senior Analyst, Robert-Alexandre Poujade, Points to IPBES Work in Raising Awareness on Biodiversity Crisis Among Governments, Companies and Investors in speech at Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI) annual conference - focusing on importance of integrating biodiversity into assest management from the outset. | New/changed idea | Website | Biodiversity must be integrated into asset management from the outset | Biodiversity must be integrated into asset management from the outset | https://news.trenddetail.com/news/137775.html | 2022-09-16 | Multi-organizational/network | Cross-regional | private | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | [email protected] | |||||||||||||
325 | Fri, 19/08/2022 | rspaull | UBC Study Expands on IPBES Global Assessment Examining how Indigenous -Managed Lands Help Species Survive | English (396) | A study from the University of British Columbia (UBC) expanded on the findings of the IPBES Global Assessment Report, examining how Indigenous-managed lands “play a critical role in helping species survive” using land and species data from 3 countries. | New/changed research project | Website | https://news.ubc.ca/2019/07/31/biodiversity-highest-on-indigenous-managed-lands/#:~:text=The%20researchers%20analyzed%20land%20and,co%2Dmanaged%20by%20Indigenous%20communities. | https://news.ubc.ca/2019/07/31/biodiversity-highest-on-indigenous-managed-lands/#:~:text=The%20researchers%20analyzed%20land%20and,co%2Dmanaged%20by%20Indigenous%20communities. | 2019-07-31 | Global | Cross-regional | Australia, Brazil, Canada | private | Rob | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||||
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] | |||||||||||||
495 | Tue, 27/09/2022 | Anonymous | Catalan Observatory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity Established to Act as Reference Point for IPBES | Catalan (420) | Catalan Observatory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity established, linking the Autonomous Catalan Government (Spain) with research organizations , NGOs and other bodies as a science policy interface. The organisation aims to become a reference point at the subnational level for IPBES work in Catalonia. | New/changed network | Website | Observatori de la Natura | Observatori de la Natura | https://observatorinatura.cat/ | 2022-06-16 | ALL | - | State/Provincial | Europe and Central Asia | Spain | Catalonia | public | Dr. | Lluís | Brotons | CSIC-CREAF | Research scientist | IPBES Observer, Expert of a completed or an ongoing IPBES assessment | [email protected] | 34 618094100 |