IPBES

🔍 What is the ongoing IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment about? The Business and Biodiversity Assessment is a groundbreaking methodological evaluation designed to help businesses better understand their relationship with nature. Its aim? To better inform policymakers and help businesses measure and mitigate their impacts on nature. By supporting the global biodiversity goals and sustainable development, this assessment report will be a vital tool for creating a more sustainable future.🌱 The Assessment will: 📌 Offer a typology of methods to identify and measure nature´s contributions to businesses and the impacts of business on biodiversity. 📌 Assess the appropriateness of those methods for different types of companies and different levels of decision-making within companies. 📌 Offer options for action: Provide actionable options for businesses to manage dependencies and impacts in response to both financial needs and transformative change for societal and nature's benefits. 📌 Identify changes in the enabling environment that would support business in achieving transformative change. Do you want to help us create a sustainable future? 🔗 Participate in the external review and be a part of the solution: https://lnkd.in/eNyNQpK6 #Biodiversity #Sustainability #Business #IPBES #Nature #IPBESStakeholders #BizBiodiversity

The Americas region is highly biologically & culturally diverse🐅 It spans from pole to pole, with some of the most extensive wilderness areas on the🌎! More on #biodiversity & ecosystems in the region via IPBES Regional Assessment for the Americas: https://lnkd.in/dWk4RyxT

Do financial institutions depend on ecosystem services? And how are these institutions identifying and measuring this exposure? Luis Mundaca and Jan-Niklas Heintz estimate the nature dependencies of large European banks and thereby highlight the critical importance of ecosystem services in sustaining economic activities. As businesses increasingly recognise their reliance on biodiversity, the need for clear and consistent measurement approaches has never been greater. 🌍 The Business and Biodiversity Assessment currently underway by IPBES will support business in these endeavours. This methodological evaluation aims to: 📌 Offer a typology of methods used to identify and measure nature´s contributions to businesses and businesses' impacts on biodiversity. 📌 Assess the appropriateness of those methods for different types of companies and different levels of decision-making within companies. 📌 Offer options for action: Provide actionable options for businesses to manage dependencies and impacts in response to both financial needs and transformative change for societal and nature's benefits. 📌 Identify changes in the enabling environment that would support business in achieving transformative change. And for the next step of this very important assessment, YOUR contributions are crucial! Participate in the ONLY external review for this Assessment and contribute to shaping the tools that will inform businesses in their decision-making for increased sustainability: https://lnkd.in/eNyNQpK6 📆 Deadline: 17 September 2024 Read the full article “Banking on Ecosystem Services” by Luis Mundaca and Jan-Niklas Heintz here: https://lnkd.in/dfEYRxvA

🎮 📣 Gamify environmental conservation Helsinki's new Crowdsorsa mobile app lets you earn up to €0.25/m² for removing invasive plants such as lupine and Himalayan balsam.🌿 Let's protect urban #biodiversity.🌳 🗞️Helsinki Times - News from Finland https://lnkd.in/edM-9sYE

Exciting news! The 7th IPBES Capacity-Building Forum is happening in Trondheim, Norway. Date: 14–15 October 2024 On the agenda: Building capacities for the 2nd global assessment of #biodiversity and #EcosystemServices. Register by 2 September to secure your spot! https://lnkd.in/dswqNy82

Animals aren’t the only ones competing in the IPBES #nature #Olympics! Quite a few plants, fungi and protists could also claim the gold🥇 Here are just a few of the top competitors. 🦠🍄🌱

Heat waves? Hurricanes? Droughts? 🤔 The weather forecast calls for action to preserve #biodiversity and our planet. 🌏 Take a look at UNDP’s #WeatherKids campaign ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/d6cZbe7m

You want to contribute to the IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment but don’t know how the process works? Here’s an infographic explaining the IPBES assessment process. Help shape the Business and Biodiversity Assessment! Check out the infographic and participate in the ONLY External Review: https://lnkd.in/eNyNQpK6 Environment Group IPBES #businessandbiodiversity

📢 Vacancy announcement! What? Lead Program Officer: TSU on IPBES #MonitoringAssessment Where? This position is located in Montreal, Quebec. When? Apply by 7 August. ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/dwtMzeg5

#Olympic watersports athletes are preventing the spread of #InvasiveAlienSpecies by following a “check, clean, dry” process on equipment People and #nature across the globe are threatened by invasive species. -IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment 🖊️ BBC https://lnkd.in/d5uHXWqB