It’s not (all) about the money — supporting IPBES through challenging times
"An IPCC for biodiversity" – this is what many people were hoping for when the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) was founded. IPBES has had a very promising start – with a comprehensive conceptual framework and an ambitious work program. Its fir...
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| author | Christian Hof Marten Winter Stefan Hotes Lars Opgenoorth |
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| description | "An IPCC for biodiversity" – this is what many people were hoping for when the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) was founded. IPBES has had a very promising start – with a comprehensive conceptual framework and an ambitious work program. Its first published thematic assessment on pollinators, pollination and food production received wide attention within the scientific community and far beyond; the uptake by decision makers at national and regional levels has been impressive. However, during its last plenary session in March 2017, IPBES was confronted with difficult decisions due to insufficient financial pledges to the Platform’s Voluntary Trust Fund. Here, we discuss the potential consequences of the budget cuts as well as other challenges IPBES is facing, such as in facilitating stakeholder engagement. We encourage all biogeographers and other biodiversity scientists to engage in the IPBES process - to give IPBES a chance to flourish and thereby to give biodiversity an opportunity to remain on the global political agenda. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eb1c0f4cb7724ec2a73d63760b29435e2022-12-21T23:51:55ZengInternational Biogeography SocietyFrontiers of Biogeography1948-65962017-04-019110.21425/F59134700ark:13030/qt0hh0349xIt’s not (all) about the money — supporting IPBES through challenging timesChristian Hof0Marten Winter1Stefan Hotes2Lars Opgenoorth3Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, Germany’ German Representative of the International Biogeography SocietyGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany German Representative of the International Biogeography SocietyFaculty of Biology, Department of Ecology, University of Marburg, Germany Chair, IPBES committee of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and SwitzerlandFaculty of Biology, Department of Ecology, University of Marburg, Germany Chair, International Biogeography Society Committee on IPBES"An IPCC for biodiversity" – this is what many people were hoping for when the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) was founded. IPBES has had a very promising start – with a comprehensive conceptual framework and an ambitious work program. Its first published thematic assessment on pollinators, pollination and food production received wide attention within the scientific community and far beyond; the uptake by decision makers at national and regional levels has been impressive. However, during its last plenary session in March 2017, IPBES was confronted with difficult decisions due to insufficient financial pledges to the Platform’s Voluntary Trust Fund. Here, we discuss the potential consequences of the budget cuts as well as other challenges IPBES is facing, such as in facilitating stakeholder engagement. We encourage all biogeographers and other biodiversity scientists to engage in the IPBES process - to give IPBES a chance to flourish and thereby to give biodiversity an opportunity to remain on the global political agenda.http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hh0349xBiodiversityConservation biogeographyEconomicsExtinctionIPBES |
| spellingShingle | Christian Hof Marten Winter Stefan Hotes Lars Opgenoorth It’s not (all) about the money — supporting IPBES through challenging times Frontiers of Biogeography Biodiversity Conservation biogeography Economics Extinction IPBES |
| title | It’s not (all) about the money — supporting IPBES through challenging times |
| title_full | It’s not (all) about the money — supporting IPBES through challenging times |
| title_fullStr | It’s not (all) about the money — supporting IPBES through challenging times |
| title_full_unstemmed | It’s not (all) about the money — supporting IPBES through challenging times |
| title_short | It’s not (all) about the money — supporting IPBES through challenging times |
| title_sort | it s not all about the money supporting ipbes through challenging times |
| topic | Biodiversity Conservation biogeography Economics Extinction IPBES |
| url | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hh0349x |
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