Comprising almost 140 member Governments, IPBES does, to some extent, for biodiversity what the IPCC does for climate change.
The Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) researcher Marta Coll has been selected by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service (IPBES) to participate in the Chapter 4 –“Sustainable Futures”- of the upcoming Nexus Assessment, focused on the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health.
The first author meeting of took place last week in Frankfurt (Germany), and brought together more than 150 leading international experts from all around the world. During five intense days, they managed to achieve an agreement on the content that the assessment will hold, and on the working process to achieve the final goal in 2024, when the report will be released.
During these years, researchers will examine the interlinkages among the Sustainable Development Goals related to food and water security, health for all, protecting biodiversity on land and in the oceans, and combating climate change.
The researcher Marta Coll, from the Department of Marine Renewal Resources of the ICM-CSIC, is one of the three Spanish experts participating in this Nexus Assessment. Specifically, she will participate in the Chapter 4, that will assess policy and socio-political options to facilitate and accelerate the transition to a range of more sustainable futures.
“This is a challenging and very timely process, where we will analyse scientific evidence and local ecological knowledge to synthesise the essential links that are established between key ecological and socioeconomic processes to inform local, regional and international policy and management in the need to ensure a sustainable and liveable planet for the future”, states Coll.
IPBES is an independent intergovernmental body comprising almost 140 member Governments. Established in 2012, it provides policymakers with information about the planet’s biodiversity, ecosystems and the contributions they make to people, as well as the tools and methods to protect and sustainably use these vital natural assets. To some extent, the platform does for biodiversity what the IPCC does for climate change.