IFB Flagship Leader, Professor Richard Field of the University of Nottingham, has joined the team that will produce the next Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Monitoring Assessment. Richard will serve as a Review Editor. He was nominated as a UK representative by DEFRA.
At IPBES 10 in 2023, the IPBES Plenary approved the undertaking of a methodological assessment on monitoring biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people.
Scope and rationale
The objective of the assessment is to support national and global efforts to -
- monitor biodiversity, nature’s contributions to people and the direct and underlying causes of the observed changes; and
- monitor progress towards the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in support of a balanced and enhanced implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity, including its three objectives, and contributing to monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and relevant multilateral environmental agreements, processes and efforts, in particular the biodiversity-related conventions, taking into account the specific circumstances of developing countries.
Richard said -
"IPBES is the leading intergovernmental body for assessing biodiversity, and its Assessments are keystone publications. As well as being honoured to be part of the Monitoring Assessment, I welcome the opportunity to feed some of IFB’s work into it. It helps the Assessment to be informed by the latest work in this area, and it is good for IFB to have this route to impact."
The assessment will take into account other knowledge systems as included in the conceptual framework of the IPBES, and the different value systems as conceptualised in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.