IPBES-CH meeting 2024

We would like to welcome you to a Swiss IPBES morning, where you can inform yourself on current activities and ways to participate, discuss the new IPBES assessments which will be approved by IPBES-11 Plenary in December 2024 (Nexus and Transformative change) and inform yourself on upcoming opportunities.

We will share the still confidential drafts of IPBES thematic assessments with registered participants. Thus, you need to sign a confidentiality agreement to participate in the event.

The event is now fully booked.

Program (subject to change)

• 9:00 --- Welcome (SCNAT)
• 9:05 --- Prof. Markus Fischer, IPBES MEP member, former Co-Chair ECA Assessment: “What is IPBES, how does it work? IPBES tasks & achievements.
• 9:25 --- Sebastian König, BAFU, IPBES Focal Point Switzerland: “Science-policy interface for biodiversity, with a view from policy”
• 9:40 --- Eva Spehn and Dorothea Hug Peter, SCNAT, IPBES-CH platform coordination: “IPBES programme until 2030, National IPBES Platform for Switzerland- activities and actions”

10:00 -- Coffee break

• 10:30 --- Upcoming “Nexus” assessment:
  Introduced by Prof. Maria Santos, Uni Zürich, Lead Author Chapter 5.2.
  Discussion and feedback/input and suggestions for SPM tbd @IPBES-11
• 11:00 --- Upcoming “Transformative Change” assessment:
  Introduced by Prof. Chinwe Ifeijka Speranza, Uni Bern, Lead author chapter 5 and Iago Otero, Uni Lausanne, Lead author of chapter 2
  Discussion and feedback/input and suggestions for SPM tbd @IPBES-11
• 11:30 --- Glimpse on the 2nd Global Assessment (to be produced 2025-2028), communication of IPBES results, uptake in Switzerland (mentimeter),
• 11:45 --- Good practice example: IPBES Invasive alien species assessment
• 12:00 --- Concluding remarks (Sebastian König)
• 12:00-13:00 Lunch at the Cantina /HdA