UK IPBES Workshop

JNCC and Defra jointly hosted a workshop on 5 July 2011 in London.  The objective of the workshop was to ensure the UK government liaises in an appropriate way with the UK biodiversity science and policy community before the first IPBES plenary session in October 2011. The workshop focussed on

• focus on how to engage the UK science/policy community with the four identified functions of IPBES,
• seek to determine how best to ensure future engagement between scientists (social and natural), UK Government (across Whitehall) and other national stakeholders including NGOs and business),
• produce outcomes that will help frame policy discussions with other EU Member States, and
• ensure that UK and EU positions at the plenary session are based on a sound understanding of global evidence needs on biodiversity and ecosystem services.

 

 

Download final report

 

• Report of the UK IPBES Stakeholder Workshop (PDF, 92 kb)

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Download papers from UK Stakeholder Workshop 5 July 2011

• Download Agenda

Presentations:

• Creating an Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) - Andrew Stott
• Lessons from the IPCC - Alison Conboy
• Report on the international expert meeting on IPBES and capacity building, Trondheim -  Jerry Harrison
• Scientist View on Assessments (based on National Ecosystem Assessment) - Mel Austen
• EU science-policy initiatives - Allan Watt

 

IPBES meeting papers:

• Chairman's Report with summaries and findings, International expert meeting on IPBES and capacity building - Trondheim, 25-27 May 2001
• Trondheim Conference on IPBES and capacity building - Trondheim, 25-27 May 2011
• Trondheim expert meeting on IPBES and capacity-building - Trondheim, 25-27 May 2011
• Informal meeting of scientific organisations interested in IPBES  - Paris, 10 June 2011
• Making a difference with IPBES - Leipzig, 11-13 May 2011
• Report of the third ad hoc intergovernmental and multi‑stakeholder meeting on an intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services - Busan, 7-11 June 2010

 

Background information:

• CPR Briefing on IPBES:  Update on plenary meeting planning - June 2011
• IPBES Fact Sheet
• IPBES FAQs
• Perrings, C et al (2011) The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Science-Policy Interface.  Science Vol: 331 No. 6021 pp. 1139-1140  (links to Abstract only)

 

Veune: Royal Horticultural Halls Conference Centre, Greycoat Street, London SW1P 2QD

 

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