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-Workshop: 27.5.2015, Frankfurt/Main Wie deutsche Experten und Expertinnen zum Gelingen der regionalen Assessments von IPBES beitragen können.

Gefördert durch das Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN) mit

Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Naturschutz,

Bau und Reaktorsicherheit (BMUB)

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IPBES deliverable 2 (c):

Initial scoping report for a global assessment

on biodiversity and ecosystem services &

IPBES/3/INF/22

Consistent use of indicators across global, regional, and

subregional assessments

Jens Mutke Universität Bonn

http://www.bion-bonn.org/

http://www.nees.uni-bonn.de/




http://www.nees.uni-bonn.de/staff/pages/jens-mutke
















Decision IPBES-2/5: Work programme for the period 2014–2018 (pre-IPBES-3 version!)











Relevant documents:

IPBES/3/9 Initial scoping report for a global assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES deliverable 2c)

IPBES/3/INF/22 Consistent use of indicators across global, regional, and subregional assessments

IPBES/3/INF/4 Guide on production and integration of assessments from and across all scales (Deliverable 2a)

IPBES/3/4 Draft IPBES Data and Information Management Plan (Deliverable 4b)

Decision IPBES-3/3: Procedures for the preparation of the Platform’s deliverables (for 2c: pp. 84-91 in IPBES-3/18 Report of the third session of the Plenary and Appendix I Tasks and responsibilities of report co-chairs, coordinating lead authors, lead authors, contributing authors, review editors and expert reviewers, pp.94-96 Appendix II Procedure on the use of literature in the reports of the Platform, p.97)

Decision IPBES-2/4: Conceptual framework for the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Decision IPBES-2/5 & IPBES-3/1Work programme for the period 2014–2018






http://www.ipbes.net/images/documents/plenary/third/working/3_9/IPBES_3_9_EN.pdf

http://www.ipbes.net/images/documents/plenary/third/information/INF_22/IPBES_3_INF_22.pdf

http://www.ipbes.net/images/documents/plenary/third/information/INF_4/IPBES_3_INF_4.pdf

http://www.ipbes.net/images/documents/plenary/third/working/3_4/IPBES_3_4_EN.pdf

http://www.ipbes.net/images/documents/plenary/third/working/3_18/IPBES_3_18_Advance.pdf



http://www.ipbes.net/images/decisions/Decision IPBES_2_4.pdf











Initial scoping report for a global assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES deliverable 2c, IPBES/3/9)

I. Introduction

• overall scope of the global assessment will be to assess the status and trends of biodiversity and ecosystem services, the impact of biodiversity and ecosystem services on human well-being and the effectiveness of responses, including the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets

• need for close links with the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as with previous and ongoing assessment processes






http://ipbes.net/images/documents/plenary/third/working/3_9/IPBES_3_9_EN.pdf






Global Environmental Assessments

• UN-CBD: Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO) 2nd COP of CBD (1995) called for the periodic report on biological diversity: GBO1 published 2001, GBO4 2014

• UNEP: Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) started in 1995 by UNEP; 5 main reports: 1997-2012, annual reports, online data portal

• FAO: The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture in progress; already available: SoW Forests, SoW Plant Genetic Resources, etc

• Millenium Ecosystem Assessement 2001–2005, Called for by UN Secretary General in 2000, coordinated by UNEP, 5 technical volumes & 6 synthesis reports, 33 sub-global assessments, > 1,360 experts (95 countries), 80 review editors, 600 reviewers, 18,000 comments from 850 experts & governments

• Global Biodiversity Assessment Published 1995, 1,140-page report. Funded by the GEF & UNEP, independent and peer reviewed, over 1,500 scientists and experts from all parts of the world.

• Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) (incl. GEO BON) network coordinating observation systems






https://www.cbd.int/gbo/

http://www.unep.org/geo/

http://www.fao.org/nr/cgrfa/cgrfa-global/cgrfa-globass/en/

http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.html

http://www.un.org/earthwatch/biodiversity/assessment.html

http://www.earthobservations.org/geoss.php

http://geobon.org/











https://www.cbd.int/gbo4/

https://www.cbd.int/gbo3/







Timeline & nomination Prozess: • Call for Nominations by IPBES Chair (5 February 2015):

“scoping of a global assessment […] for consideration by the Plenary at its 4th session […] involving up to 20 experts.“ => 4 experts per UN Region…

“The expert group […] include the co-chairs of all ongoing assessments as well as MEP and Bureau members”

application deadline was 31 March 2015.

scoping meeting is planned for 5 – 7 October 2015.

?open consultation prior to the workshop “suggested” in IPBES/3/9, paragraph 9?

• Email by the IPBES secretariat (21 May 2015):

“The Co-Chairs of all assessments have now been selected, and a final decision is currently being made on the selection of CLAs and LAs.”













II. Suggested approach for the scoping process

•full scoping of the assessment to be carried out in 2015

•scoping workshop (involve the participation of about 60 experts, including selected experts, and members of the Panel and the Bureau, as well as the co-chairs of each regional assessment)

•Nominations are made in accordance with the following criteria: the experts nominated must reflect the range of scientific, technical and socio-economic views and expertise that exist; include appropriate geographical representation, ensure the representation of experts from developing and developed countries and countries with economies in transition; reflect a diversity of knowledge systems; and reflect gender balance. The experts nominated should also include some policymakers. In addition, it would be important for the secretariat of the Convention to be represented in the scoping workshop.

•The scoping document will include: sections presenting the overall scope and utility of the global assessment; detailed chapter outline; include sections on data and knowledge, operational structure, possible strategic partnerships, process and timetable, communication, outreach and capacity-building activities, and cost estimates. (=> the same structure as in the 9 pages „Draft generic scoping report for the regional and subregional assessments”)












IPBES/3/6/Add.1 Draft generic scoping report for the regional and subregional assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem services (deliverable 2 (b))

I. Scope, geographic boundary, rationale, utility and assumptions II. Chapter outline

Chapter 1: Setting the scene Chapter 2: Nature’s benefits to people and quality of life Chapter 3: Status, trends and future dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystems underpinning nature’s

benefits to people Chapter 4: Direct and indirect drivers of change in the context of different perspectives of quality of

life Chapter 5: Integrated and cross-scale analysis of interactions of the natural world and human society Chapter 6: Options for governance, institutional arrangements and private and public decision-

making across scales and sectors III. Key datasets IV. Strategic partnership and initiatives V. Operational structure VI. Process and timetable VII. Cost estimate VIII. Communication and outreach X. Capacity-building






http://ipbes.net/images/documents/plenary/third/working/3_6/IPBES_3_6_Add.1_EN.pdf







III. Consultations prior to the scoping

•It is suggested that, prior to the scoping workshop, an open consultation will be organized(?)

•The Panel, the Bureau and the secretariat will work with the Convention, including its secretariat, in order to explore the scope of the global assessment in relation to the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020.

•Key issues: how the global assessment contributes to the assessment of progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets for 2020, how it draws upon or relates to the information in the fifth and sixth national reports for the Convention, and how it relates to a potential fifth Global Biodiversity Outlook report.

•Full scoping document should include discussion, how to build on and relate to existing efforts:

–Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO) including (GBO-4);

–the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP);

–the first World Ocean Assessment;

–planned assessments by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO);

–Global Environmental Outlook process (GEO);

–national assessments carried out by Governments in preparing their national reports for the Convention, and other national, regional and global assessments;












Consistent use of indicators across global, regional and subregional assessments (IPBES/3/INF/22) Briefing Paper for the Third Session of the Platform’s Plenary (IPBES-3)

Note by the secretariat

• The Briefing paper is prepared by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), as secretariat of the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP) (presented as received, without formal editing)

• highlight the value of alignment of indicators with those being developed and used under the Convention on Biological Diversity.

• adresses the issue of coherence in the use of indicators across the assessments






http://ipbes.net/images/documents/plenary/third/information/INF_22/IPBES_3_INF_22.pdf

http://ipbes.net/plenary/ipbes-3.html








BIP Partners






http://www.bipindicators.net/partners






Introduction

• importance of coherence across the assessments

• importance of common framework to arrive at an integrated view (linking regional and global assessments)

• The Guide for Assessments (Deliv.2a) and the Data and Information Plan (4b) emphazise role of indicators, e.g., for monitoring the consequences of alternative policies and as essential link between assessments (“common building blocks”)

• IPBES operation principles: IPBES should collaborate with existing initiatives, build on what is already done and avoid dublication (this includes work that is done by CBD for Aichi Biodiversity targets)
















Indicators to track achievement of CBD Targets

• “This information document only specifically indicators and indicator processes relating to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)”

• “The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 […] presents a framework […] for the entire UN system”

• The Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP, established 2006) was initially established to help monitor progress towards the CBD 2010 biodiversity target

• For the GBO4 (2014): 55 global BIP-indicators (projected to 2020); some also applicable to IPBES assessments such as land use trends, status of pollinating species etc

• GEO BON develop Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) to harmozise monitoring schemes and facilitate new indicators

IPBES/3/4, Paragraph 28: “Key partners in the area of indicators and metrics may include the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership and GEO-BON, respectively.”
















Indicators to track achievement of CBD Targets

• CBD COP decided to convene Ad-Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) meeting on indicators in 2015 (29 June - 2 July 2015 - Geneva, Switzerland): will agree a road map for addressing indicator gaps and understand how current indicators can better support other initiatives such as IPBES…

• Overlap in the overarching goals of biodiversity-related Conventions: efforts to harmonize indicators, identify BIP indicators that can be used of other conventions => high potential for adapting global indicators to the specific needs; opportunity to develop indicators that are relevant as well for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)







https://www.cbd.int/doc/?meeting=ID-AHTEG-2015-01











Global Assessments

• Indicators are important tools for assessment, monitoring, and communication; important issue for IPBES Task Force on Knowledge and Data (Deliverable 4b)

• strong arguments for promoting use of indicators developed for Aichi Targets and the CBD Strategic Plan to utilize existing experience and work and to build coherence between IPBES, CBD, other MEAs, and the SDGs

Regional and subregional Assessments

• BIP and CBD work to develop capacity within governments and national-level institutions for the use of indicators in the NBSAP process (e.g., SEBI: Streamlining European Biodiversity Indicators)















BIP Indicators in the framework of the CBD Strategic Plan 2002-2010

http://www.bipindicators.net/indicators/2010






http://www.bipindicators.net/indicators/2010






The Essential Biodiversity Variables - examples

https://www.earthobservations.org/documents/cop/bi_geobon/ebvs/201303_ebv_table.pdf






https://www.earthobservations.org/documents/cop/bi_geobon/ebvs/201303_ebv_table.pdf

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