Impact Tracking Page
Welcome to the IPBES Impact Tracking Database (TRACK).
The purpose of TRACK is to record, document and share examples of the use of IPBES outputs, such as the IPBES assessment reports, in decision-making or in science.
TRACK is not designed to be comprehensive, analytically rigorous or serve a wider monitoring function – it makes no claim to be an exhaustive list of IPBES impacts. It is, instead, an indicative list for the primary purpose of IPBES communications, outreach and public relations. Apart from a basic eligibility screening, the IPBES secretariat does not independently verify the examples listed in TRACK, which are primarily gleaned from third party stakeholders, media reports and similar sources.
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TRACK
Title | Type(s) of impacts generated | Impact date | Scale of impact Sort descending | Region of Impact | Country/ies of impact | Website | Relevant IPBES deliverable(s) | Private/Public sector impact? | edit |
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British Natural History Museum Declares Planetary Emergency, Cites IPBES Global Assessment | New/changed action/initiative | 20 Jan 2020 | Organizational | Europe and Central Asia | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | private | |
AXA Research Fund Launches Publication, Draws on IPBES Global Assessment | New/changed action/initiative | Organizational | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | private | ||||
Kunst Haus Wien Shows Biodiversity-Related Art Installation by Claudius Schulze, Cites Global Assessment | New/changed action/initiative | 30 Jan 2020 | Organizational | Europe and Central Asia | Austria | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | private | |
Toulouse Museum Displays Exhibit on Species Extinction, Cites IPBES Global Assessment | New/changed action/initiative | 09 Oct 2019 | Organizational | Europe and Central Asia | France | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | private | |
IPBES Selected as 2020 WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award Winner | Other | 22 Oct 2020 | Organizational | Europe and Central Asia | Sweden | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | public | |
Citoyens Pour le Climat (Citizens for Climate) Produced a Short Synthesis in French of the Global Assessment to Spread the Key Messages | Other | Organizational | Europe and Central Asia | France | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | private | ||
IPBES Tweet on Miniature Urban Forests Prompts London Civil Society Campaign to Investigate Options | New/changed action/initiative | 08 Aug 2020 | Organizational | Europe and Central Asia | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | website | Communications | public | |
Citing IPBES Global Assessment, Schneider Electric Announces its Corporate Actions to Reverse Biodiversity Loss | New/changed action/initiative | 23 Oct 2020 | Organizational | Europe and Central Asia | France | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | private | |
Citing IPBES Global Assessment, New 'Global Law Alliance' Champions Wild Animals, Wild Spaces at Lewis & Clark Law School | New/changed action/initiative | 22 Sep 2020 | Organizational | Americas | United States of America | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | public | |
Dutch Multinational Royal DSM N.V. Refers to Global Assessment Findings in 2020 Integrated Annual Report | New/changed commitment | 02 Mar 2021 | Organizational | Cross-regional | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | public | ||
UNEP uses IPBES Pandemics Report to argue that a Healthy Environment should be a Human Right | New article | 13 Apr 2021 | Organizational | Cross-regional | website | Policy support tools and methodologies (1st work programme) | public | ||
MSIG Asia Increases Efforts on Corporate Sustainability citing IPBES Global Assessment | New/changed commitment | 13 Apr 2021 | Organizational | Asia-Pacific | China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | private | |
Dutch Asset Management Firm Robeco Launches Positioning Paper on Biodiversity Protection Through Investment Citing IPBES Global Assessment Evidence | New/changed commitment | 31 Jan 2022 | Organizational | Cross-regional | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | private | ||
France Télévisions Journalists Trained by IPBES Experts on Biodiversity Issues | New/changed action/initiative | 11 May 2023 | Organizational | Europe and Central Asia | France | website | Biodiversity and climate change | public | |
Europe: Public consultation on an EU initiative for pollinators | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Jan 2018 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | website | Pollination assessment | |||
EU Pollinators Initiative informed by IPBES Pollinators Assessment | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Jun 2018 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | website | Pollination assessment | |||
European Commission funding for research and innovation action on interrelations between climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem services | New/changed investment | 01 Nov 2018 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | website | Knowledge and data (1st work programme) | |||
P3 - People, Pollution and Pathogens Project working on dataset for future IPBES work program | New/changed research project | 01 Sep 2018 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | website | Europe and Central Asia assessment | |||
Ministers adopt common continental position on biodiversity protection and land degradation at African Summit - informed by IPBES Assessments | New/changed commitment | 01 Nov 2018 | Regional | Africa | website | Africa assessment | |||
Bee-Friendly Initiative to Plant Flowers Doubled, Introduced by German Regional Government of Hessen, Beekepers and Farmers' Associations | New/changed action/initiative | 01 May 2019 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | Germany | website | Building capacity (1st work programme) | ||
Bonn Convention and Bern Convention Launch Rome Strategic Plan in Light of Global Assessment Report | New/changed action/initiative | Regional | Cross-regional | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | ||||
European Union Staffers' Launch Biodiversity and Climate Petition Citing IPBES Calling for EU Declaration of Planetary Emergency | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Jun 2019 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | |||
Greens/EFA in EU Parliament draw on findings of the Global Assessment to critique subsidies in the the EU agricultural industry. | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Jun 2019 | Regional | European Union | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | |||
European Union Aligns EU Biodiversity Barometer Launch with IPBES Global Assessment | New/changed research project | 01 May 2019 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | European Union | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | ||
Media Give Partial Credit to Global Assessment and Awareness of Extinction Risk as Boost to Greens in 2019 EU Election | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Jun 2019 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | European Union | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | ||
In light of Global Assessment, EU Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Announces 2020 #EuGreenWeek Will Be 'All About Biodiversity' | New/changed commitment | 01 May 2019 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | European Union | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | ||
32 Leading scientists, citing Global Assessment and author testimony in Canadian Parliament, pen letter to Deputy Environmental Minister of Canada advocating fulfillment of protected areas target | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Jul 2019 | Regional | Americas | Canada | website | Communications | ||
National Resources Defense Council cites IPBES Global Assessment in opposition to anti-biodiversity bill in California | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Aug 2019 | Regional | Americas | United States of America | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) | ||
Based on the insights of the IPBES Assessment for Europe and Central Asia, a group of scientists released a paper on the shortcomings of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and options for improvement | New/changed research project | 01 Nov 2019 | Regional | Europe and Central Asia | website | Europe and Central Asia assessment | |||
IPBES Evidence Considered by Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization for Regional Biodiversity Programme, Invites IPBES Chair Ana María Hernández for High-Level Consultation | New/changed action/initiative | 01 Oct 2019 | Regional | Americas | Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | website | Global assessment (1st work programme) |