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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 | |||||||||||||
415 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | Drawing on IPBES Regional Assessment for Africa Article Identifies Future Pathways and Options for Biodiversity Across the Continent | English (396) | The authors build on the IPBES Regional Assessment Report for Africa to show what is changing in biodiversity and ecosystem services on the African continent. They also identify future pathways and options for an African continent where long-term development objectives are recognized as inseparably connected to the conservation of the region's rich biocultural heritage. | New/changed research project | Website | Biodiversity and ecosystem services on the African continent – What is changing, and what are our options? | Biodiversity and ecosystem services on the African continent – What is changing, and what are our options? | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211464520300804?dgcid=author | 2021-03-05 | Regional | Africa | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||||
407 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | Global Assessment Findings used by SAIIA to Argue for Immediate Action to Preserve Biodiversity Especially in Africa | English (396) | The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) published an opinion piece following the conclusion of the first segment of the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) - using the findings of the IPBES Global Assessment to corroborate it's call for urgent action, cooperation, ambition, and finance for the restoration and preservation of biodiversity - especially in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. | New article | Website | The Road to a Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Considering African Priorities | The Road to a Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Considering African Priorities | https://www.polity.org.za/article/the-road-to-a-post-2020-global-biodiversity-framework-considering-african-priorities-2021-03-03 | 2021-03-03 | Multi-organizational/network | Africa | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||||
409 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | US Members of Congress Cite Global Assessment Reintroducing Bipartisan Bill to Support Highly Endangered Species Around the World | English (396) | On World Wildlife Day, US Representatives Jared Huffman (D-CA) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL) (joined by 18 other US Representatives) re-introduced the Critically Endangered Animals Conservation Act, a bipartisan bill to support conservation efforts for highly endangered species around the world. Their media release cites the findings of the IPBES Global Assessment Report to support these efforts. The bill establishes the Critically Endangered Animals Conservation Fund; authorizes $5 million per year from 2022-2027; and focuses on IUCN Red-list species (critically endangered or endangered), not including species already covered by other multinational species funds. | New/changed action/initiative | Website | HUFFMAN, BUCHANAN INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO ADDRESS WORLD EXTINCTION CRISIS | HUFFMAN, BUCHANAN INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO ADDRESS WORLD EXTINCTION CRISIS | https://huffman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/on-world-wildlife-day-huffman-buchanan-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-address-world-extinction-crisis | 2021-03-03 | USD | 30000000 | Global | Cross-regional | United States of America | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | |||||||||||
404 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | Dutch Multinational Royal DSM N.V. Refers to Global Assessment Findings in 2020 Integrated Annual Report | English (396) | Royal DSM N.V. (Dutch multinational with net global annual sales of more than Euro 8.6 billion) includes in their Integrated Annual Report for 2020: "Like every business in the world, we depend on nature and ecosystem services. We acknowledge our role to protect biodiversity, and fully support the ambitions of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Biodiversity loss is accelerating, and its key drivers are all connected with human activity. According to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment, one million of the eight million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. We address our impacts on biodiversity and natural ecosystems through our Responsible Care Plan, especially with our GHG reduction, water stewardship and waste management programs." | New/changed commitment | Website | Royal DSM: Integrated Annual Report 2020 | Royal DSM: Integrated Annual Report 2020 | https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/ROYAL-DSM-N-V-6279/news/Royal-DSM-N-nbsp-Integrated-Annual-Report-2020-32579892/ | 2021-03-02 | Organizational | Cross-regional | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||||
405 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | rspaull | Article Cites IPBES Pandemics Report to Argue Against Possible US Government Approvals for Logging Hundreds of Acres of Old-Growth Forest in Montana | English (396) | An article by US news advocacy organisation, Turthout, uses the findings of the IPBES workshop report on biodiversity and pandemics to argue against possible approval by the US Forest Service of the "Black Ram Project" that would authorise commercial harvesting on more than 3,900 acres in the Kootenai National Forest in Montana, including the clear-cutting of at least 579 acres of trees that are hundreds of years old. | New article | Website | Biden May Approve Logging an Old-Growth Forest, Heightening Climate Risks | Biden May Approve Logging an Old-Growth Forest, Heightening Climate Risks | https://truthout.org/articles/biden-may-approve-logging-an-old-growth-forest-heightening-climate-risks/ | 2021-03-02 | State/Provincial | Americas | United States of America | Montana | public | Robert | Spaull | IPBES | Head of Comms | 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 | ||||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||
400 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Anonymous | Call for Global Science-Policy Body on Chemicals and Waste References Influence and Success of IPBES | English (396) | Drawing on the IPCC as well as IPBES' experience and impacts, the authors of this paper call for a global science-policy body on chemicals and waste similar to the two existing intergovernmental platforms. | New/changed idea | Other | We need a global science-policy body on chemicals and waste | We need a global science-policy body on chemicals and waste | https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6531/774 | 2021-02-19 | Global | public | Dr. | Flore | Lafaye de Micheaux | IPBES | Stakeholder engagement officer | Secretariat: Bonn | ||||||||||||||
395 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Patrick.Tonissen | IPBES Assessment Graphics Used Prominently by New Scientist to Illustrate "Our Impact on Earth’s Ecosystems and Biodiversity – in Graphics" | English (396) | Figures from the IPBES Global Assessment Report and IPBES Land Degradation and Restoration Assessment Report were used prominently by the outlet New Scientist to illustrate "Our impact on Earth’s ecosystems and biodiversity – in graphics." |
New article | Website | New Scientist | New Scientist | https://www.newscientist.com/article/2268035-our-impact-on-earths-ecosystems-and-biodiversity-in-graphics/ | 2021-02-18 | 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 | |||||||||||||
394 | Mon, 04/04/2022 | Anonymous | Through IKI grant to BES-Net II, UNEP-WCMC supporting developing countries to undertake evaluations of the current state of knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services | With IKI financial support and UNEP-WCMC technical support, three countries (Dominican Republic, Malawi and Thailand) have commenced their national ecosystem assessments under the framework of BES-Net Phase II, with close reference to the IPBES Guide on the Production of Assessments and leveraging the expertise of the Sub-Global Assessment Network. | New/changed research project | Other | https://www.unep-wcmc.org/news/three-more-countries-start-national-ecosystem-assessments | https://www.unep-wcmc.org/news/three-more-countries-start-national-ecosystem-assessments | 2021-02-17 | National | Cross-regional | Dominican Republic, Malawi, Thailand | public | Yuko | Kurauchi | UNDP | Policy Specialist | IPBES Observer, Stakeholder | |||||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||
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 |