6. IPBES Flashcards
What kind of actors are in The Plenary and how often do they meet?
- Member states
- They meet once per year
What kind of actors are in the group Observers to the Plenary?
- States that are not yet members
- Related UN bodies (e.g. CBD)
- Other accredited organizations
Who are the actors that are classified as Stakeholders?
All contributors to and end-users of IPBES outputs.
What does the Bureau do?
Oversees admin
What does MEP stand for and what does it do?
- Multidisciplinary Expert Panel
- Oversees scientific & technical functions
What do the Expert Groups & Taskforces do?
Write the assessments and other knowledge work.
What does the Secretariat do?
Implementation
What is the goal of IPBES?
Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, long-term human well-being and sustainable development.
What is the most important element of the IPBES conceptual framework?
It explicitly includes multiple knowledge systems.
What does IPBES do? Name two of four.
- Expert assessments
- Policy support
- Building capacity & knowledge
- Communications & outreach
Name 2 conclusions from the recent Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
- 1 million species at risk of extinction
- Abundances of native species declined by over 20% since 1900
- 75% of the land surface is significantly altered
- Benefits form nature are in decline
What are Visions?
A desirable state in the future.
What are Scenarios?
Plausible, often simplified descriptions of how the future may develop.
What are Pathways?
Strategies from moving from the current situation towards a desired future or target.
Why does the IPBES want to develop new scenarios? Name 1 reason.
- Most global scenarios are limited to assessing the impact of drivers on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- Most global scenarios have been developed for other purposes (e.g. climate change)
- Most global scenarios have had limited stakeholder participation
What are the names of the 3 corners in the draft Nature Futures Framework?
- Nature for Nature
- Nature for Society
- Nature as Culture
What does the IPBES hope to achieve with new scenarios? Name 2.
- Generate an increasing diversity in public policy tools
- Increase inclusiveness and legitimacy by bringing in perspectives of the less powerful
What are the IPBES reports based on?
- Published international peer-reviewed literature
- Reports
- Indigenous and local knowledge
Name 2 of the 4 ingredients of a Summary for Policymakers.
- Synthesis of results
- Understandable
- Scientifically defendable
- Politically palatable
True or false: IPBES is different from treaties because it doesn’t say what someone has to do.
True.
True or false: IPBES was inspired by the IPCC to use ILK.
False. It is the other way around.
Why is ILK valueable?
A lot of knowledge is in the hands of indigenous and local communities living close to nature, and not in written papers.
How does the IPBES attempt to integrate ILK?
Through workshops where they try to let indigenous peoples steer the agenda.
What does free prior informed consent (FPIC) mean?
That at any time, if indigenous peoples want to withold knowledge, they may do so.
Name 1 characteristic of “Nature for Nature”
- Instrinsic value of nature
- Space allocated to nature
- Nature is important on its own, without people
- Valueing nature as it is
- Nature should maintain its ability to function autonomously
- Preservation of nature’s diversity and functions is of primary importance
Name 1 characteristic of “Nature for Society”.
- Nature’s benefits to people
- Ecosystem Services
- Wellbeing, economy, food
- Valueing contribution of nature to people
Name 1 characterstic of “Nature as Culture”.
- Living in harmony
- People one with nature
- Almost exclusively by indigenous
- Valuing the reciprocal harmonized relationships between people and nature
- Nature and people as one including NCP
Name 2 characteristics of the NFF.
- Nature Futures Framework
- Adopted by the IPBES plenary in 2022
- A tool that can be used to see what values dominate
- Supports the development of scenarios
- Places people and nature at its core
- Heuristic tool
True or false: the NFF triangle is meant to point out inevitable trade-offs between the different value perspectives.
-True.
What was Bolivia’s response to the draft version of the NFF and how did the IPBES change the tool?
- Bolivia found the triangle too rigid and not reflective of people’s holistic worldview
- The triangle changed to spiraling image
Name 2 characteristics of the Three Horizons Framework
- A tool for collaboratively exploring the future
- Graphical approach
- Uses stakeholder input to discuss future visions and pathways
- Welcoming to people with different views of the future
What is the first horizon?
The status quo.
What is the second horizon?
Tensions, innovations and transformations.
What is the third horizon?
Desirable visions.
What does MEB stand for and what is it?
- Multiple Evidence Base
- An approach that proposes parallels between indigenous, local and scientific knowledge systems that can complement each other
How may knowledge from diverse systems be used? Name 3.
- Integration of knowledge
- Cross-fertilization of knowledge
- Co-production of knowledge
Name 2 critiques on scientific validation of traditional or local knowledge.
- One-way process
- Validation methods may be inappropriate
- There be exclusion of relevant locally legitimate knowledge
- Disempowerment of local communities
- May damage legitimacy of outcomes
