Résultats de recherche

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Invitations to nominate experts and fellows and contribute to external reviews of draft assessments

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/MC/91279 (2023-113)
To: CBD national focal points, ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Workshop on the recently completed assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, 13 October 2023 - Nairobi, Kenya

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/91244 (2023-093)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations, cc: ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points

The CBD Secretariat welcomes the release of ISSB’s S1 and S2 Standards, 26 June 2023

The CBD Secretariat welcomes the release of ISSB’s S1 and S2 Standards, 26 June 2023

Opportunities to participate in relevant processes under the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/KNM/90827 (2023-013)
To: CBD Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Africa's growing road network may affect ecosystems: we reviewed the evidence

Many researchers claim large-scale road developments will have detrimental impacts on natural ecosystems. They are concerned about a reduction in habitat availability and connectivity. Roads can also lead to changes in land use, create illegal access into previously inaccessible areas, and resul ...

Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Extension of the review period of the study on the use and impact of the IPBES conceptual framework and other opportunities to participate in IPBES processes

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/IS/89398 (2021-059)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

8th Session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-8 Plenary)

14 - 24 June 2021, Online, Bonn, Germany

Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: IPBES 8, review of the second order draft of the chapters and the first order draft of the summary for policymakers of the assessment of the sustainable use of wild species, and other opportunities to participate in IPBES processes

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/IS/89398 (2021-032)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Water Resource Management using Internet of Things, Remote Sensing and Citizen Science (part 8) by UNESCO (16:00-17:30 CET, Paris, UCT/GMT+1)

16 March 2021, Online, Paris, France

Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Review of the second order draft of the chapters and the first order draft of the summary for policymakers of the values assessment, and other opportunities to participate in IPBES processes

Reference: SCBD/OES/EM/DC/IS/89398 (2021-008)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Sixth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Carpathian Convention (COP6)

14 - 16 September 2020, Rzeszow, Poland

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the opening of the Virtual Expert Forum on SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting 2020, 24-25 August 2020

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the opening of the Virtual Expert Forum on SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting 2020, 24-25 August 2020

Opportunities to provide inputs to the work of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/88967 (2020-044)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

The road to the strategy on the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030 is expected to be a global call to action, drawing together political support, scientific research and financial muscle to massively scale up restoration. Everyone is invited to help shape the Decade.

Why We Can Still Save The Planet, Tim Christophersen

Interesting and hopeful interview with Tim Christophersen, Head of Nature for Climate for UN Environment Programme, and managing the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030

How to Plant a Trillion Trees and Get Real Climate Results

Natural climate solutions are finally getting the attention they deserve, and everyone, it seems, is scrambling to plan carbon-absorbing trees in an effort to help meet the climate challenge. This is great, but all those trees will mean nothing if they aren’t part of a broader strategy to revive ...

Gray wolves, once nearly extinct, could be coming back to Colorado

The gray wolf, once numbering in the tens of thousands throughout North America, have faced public vilification and extermination programs that drove it to near extinction in the US. Now Colorado will vote on whether to reintroduce them into the wild after an 80-year absence, thanks to an effort ...

Opportunities to provide inputs to the work of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/AC/88272 (2019-067)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant organizations

Seventh session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services stakeholder day (IPBES-7)

29 April - 4 May 2019, Paris, France

EbA Evidence and Policy: Senegal

IIED and IUCN are using evidence from the EPIC Project piloted in Senegal to explore the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation as well as inform and influence national adaptation and mitigation planning processes and policies.

Meeting of the IPBES Task Force on Knowledge and Data

20 - 22 March 2019, Bonn, Germany

Opportunities to provide inputs to the work of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/87787 (2018-104)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant organizations

Workshop on the outcomes of the sixth session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

30 June - 1 July 2018, Montreal, Canada

Pre-SBSTTA 22 Workshop on the outcomes of the sixth session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/DC/KNM/87353 (2018-042)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, United Nations organizations, non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities organizations, business organizations, educational organizations

Reminder and Extension of Deadline: Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Invitation to review draft note as well to as submit proposals for requests for the next work programme of the Platform

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/DC/RH/87189 (2018-033)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points indigenous peoples and local communities organizations, United Nations organizations, nongovernmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations, business organizations, and educational organizations

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Invitation to review draft note as well to as submit proposals for requests for the next work programme of the Platform

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/DC/RH/87189 (2018-026)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities organizations, United Nations organizations, non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations , business organizations, and educational organizations

Technical Workshop to Review the Voluntary Guidelines for the Design and Effective Implementation of Ecosystem-based Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction

20 - 22 November 2017, Bonn, Germany

Nominations for the technical workshop for review of the voluntary guidelines for the design and effective implementation of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, 20-22 November 2017 - Bonn, Germany

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/SBG/SK/LJ/TM/86817 (2017-091)
To: CBD Focal points and relevant organizations

International Congress for Conservation Biology: "Insights for Sustaining Life on Earth"

23 - 27 July 2017, Cartagena, Colombia

As we have just heard from the delegation of Mexico, the UN Biodiversity Conference, Cancun, Mexico, 2016 recently took place with the theme of “mainstreaming biodiversity for well-being”.

Fifth Session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-5)

7 - 10 March 2017, Bonn, Germany

Statement by Mr. David Cooper, CBD Deputy Executive Secretary/Officer-in-Charge, at the opening of the Fifth Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Bonn, Germany, 6 March 2017

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Regional consultations and stakeholder day (IPBES-5)

6 March 2017, Bonn, Germany

UNEP/CBD/COP/13/INF/32

The Methodological Assessment Report on Scenarios and Models of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

UNEP/CBD/COP/13/INF/31

The Thematic Assessment Report on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/20/INF/61

Report on Progress in Implementing the Work Programme of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

It is a pleasure to join you here in Kuala Lumpur for the fourth session of the IPBES Plenary. We come together for a very exciting moment in the history of IPBES, when the Plenary will be presented with the first two assessments for its acceptance and approval.

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Fourth Session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-4), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 22 February 2016

Governments encouraged to use biodiversity and ecosystem services as strategy for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

Governments encouraged to use biodiversity and ecosystem services as strategy for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

Biodiversity and the ecosystem services it underpins can deliver benefits that will increase the resilience of people to the impacts of climate change, said current and former executives of major multilateral environmental agreements, at an event in the margins of the Paris Climate Change Confer ...

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/19/INF/11

Report on Progress in Implementing the Work Programme of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Biodiversity and the ecosystem services it underpins can be the basis for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies as they can deliver benefits that will, according to the outcomes of a recent technical workshop on ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, increase the resilience of people to the impacts of climate change.

Governments should consider the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as strategy for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

Montreal, 21 October 2015 – Biodiversity and the ecosystem services it underpins can be the basis for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies as they can deliver benefits that will, according to the outcomes of a recent technical workshop on ecosystem-based approaches to ...

Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Call for comments on the global assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/RH/VA/85105 (2015-116)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points and relevant organizations

Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Second Open Stakeholder and Government Review for revised scoping report for a methodological assessment on the diverse conceptualization of values of nature and its benefits to people

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/RH/SSC/VA/85098 (2015-117)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points and relevant organizations

Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: e-conference for the scoping for a thematic assessment of invasive alien species (and their control) and a thematic assessment of sustainable use

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/SSc/VA/84961 (2015-097)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points and relevant organizations

Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: call for proposals and pledges of support for capacity-building projects and activities under the prototype IPBES Matchmaking Facility

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/RH/VA/84876 (2015-085)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points and relevant organizations

Workshop on an Inter-sectoral Dialogue for Enhancing the Mainstreaming of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in National and Sectoral Policies, Viet Nam - 10 to 12 November 2015

Reference: SCBD/MPO/AF/ACO/fd/84875 (2015-086)
To: CBD National Focal Points of the following countries: Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam