IPBES phase 1 message ‘primers’ are short briefing documents that provide key information about each of the assessments that members will consider for approval at the sixth session of the IPBES Plenary (#IPBES6) in Colombia next year. [Read more…] about Primers on IPBES assessments
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ESP October Update
Our October Update is out this week. In this latest newsletter you can find updates on:
- ESP9 – keynote speakers, deadlines, preliminary program;
- 2018 regional conferences – MENA, Europe and Latin America confirmed, Asia and Africa are planned;
- News from the YESS network, USA National Network, the BWG 5 – Mediterranean Systems and the SWG 9 – Indigenous people & local communities;
- Did you know there is an ESP Visualisation Tool which allows you to share and download ES maps?
- New reports, publications, vacancies, calls for collaboration and other upcoming events from the ES world.
Nature based solutions webinar proceedings available online
Earlier this month EKLIPSE and Biodiversa held a webinar titled Nature-based solutions: Pandora box or reconciling concept.
Тhe recordings of the four presentations and the questions and answers session of the webinar are now fully available on the EKLIPSE YouTube channel.
You can also download all the presentations in PDF format from our repository.
Call for Research Proposals: Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- Development and application of scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services across spatial scales of relevance to multiple types of decisions
- Consideration of multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services in biodiversity scenarios
New OPPLA webinar on how ES can/should be included in policy
Last 18th of September, Ilse Geijzendorffer (Tour du Valat, and one of the lead team members of the ESP Mediterranean Working Group) together with a Marianne Kettunen (Institute for European Environmental Policy) gave an OPPLA webinar on How ecosystem services can/should be included in policy?. The session was organized within the framework of the webinar series of the OPERAS project. [Read more…] about New OPPLA webinar on how ES can/should be included in policy