The Ninth Plenary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-9): sustainable use, values, and business (as usual)

Peter Bridgewater; Dirk S Schmeller

doi:10.1007/s10531-022-02500-y

The Ninth Plenary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-9): sustainable use, values, and business (as usual)

Biodivers Conserv. 2023;32(1):1-6. doi: 10.1007/s10531-022-02500-y. Epub 2022 Nov 9.

Authors

Peter Bridgewater^{1

2}, Dirk S Schmeller³

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia.
² Institute for Applied Ecology and Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT 2617 Australia.
³ Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Université de Toulouse, UPS, INPT, Toulouse, France.

Abstract

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) held its ninth plenary session in hybrid form at Bonn, Germany in July 2022. The plenary had a packed agenda with assessments on the Sustainable Use of Wild Species and Values of Biodiversity to consider, as well as discuss a "Nature Future Framework" and a scoping document for business and biodiversity. Here, we present key issues that emerged from the plenary and suggest some matters Platform members need to consider for the future.

Keywords: Global assessment; Nature conservation; Science-policy; Stakeholders; Sustainability.

Publication types

Editorial