[IPBES Secretariat] Upcoming deadlines / information related to ongoing work of IPBES, IPBES 7 and IPBES 8

[malte...@googlemail.com]

Dear IPBES stakeholders,

 

please find attached the latest official newsletter from the IPBES Secretariat. The following deadlines and information might be important for IPBES stakeholders:

 

11 January 2019 - Deadline for stakeholder organisations to register their delegates as observers for IPBES-7, 28 April to 4 May 2019 in Paris/France. (Online registration form: https://www.ipbes.net/registration/ipbes-7)

To participate in IPBES plenary meetings, delegates need to register on behalf of an stakeholder organisation that has been accepted as an "observer" to IPBES. Check the list on the IPBES web page to see if your organisation is already accredited as observer (https://www.ipbes.net/accredited-organisations). If your organisation has not been accredited as observer at previous IPBES plenary meetings, you need to indicated that in the registration form. The IPBES Bureau will review applications and decide if an organisation should be recommended as a new observer to the plenary or not. The final decision on the admission of new observers is up to the IPBES Plenary (see IPBES/1/12). Make sure that you provide all requested information and that you show how your organisations work is related to IPBES. Interested individuals not affiliated to an organisation with observer status could contact accredited organisations in their region or field of expertise and asked if it would be possible to join a delegation.

 

11 January 2019 - Deadline for experts interested to contribute to the IPBES assessment of invasive alien species to fill out the online application form. Please notice that your application need to be supported by a nominating stakeholder organisation or government that need to confirm your application until 1 February 2019. (IPBES Call for Experts: EM/2018/22, 4 October 2018)

 

 

With kind regards,

 

Malte Timpte

 

 

 

Malte Timpte

M.Sc. in Technological and Socio-Economic Planning

Public Engagement & Environmental Politics

 

> Institute for Biodiversity - Network e.V. (ibn) - Experts

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From: IPBES secretariat <secre...@ipbes.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 11:48
Subject: Upcoming deadlines / information related to ongoing work of IPBES, IPBES 7 and IPBES 8

 

View this email in your browser 28 November 2018 EM/2018/25 Dear IPBES members, observers and stakeholders, It gives me great pleasure to announce that, on the basis of a request by H.E. Jorge Arreaza Monserrat, the Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has formally joined IPBES as our 131st member. I know you will join me in warmly welcoming the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the growing IPBES family – strengthening science and policy, for people and nature. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you of a few upcoming deadlines and share some information related to the ongoing work of IPBES, IPBES 7 and IPBES 8: You may recall my letter, dated 12 September 2018 (EM/2018/18), inviting governments and relevant stakeholders to register as participants for the seventh session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Plenary, taking place from 28 April to 4 May 2019, in Paris, France. I would like to thank everyone who has already registered and invite those who have not to register by filling in the online registration form (https://www.ipbes.net/registration/ipbes-7) as soon as possible, and no later than 11 January 2019. I would like to draw your attention to the dedicated webpage for the seventh IPBES Plenary session meeting documents, where you will find the provisional agenda and information for participants. Meeting documents will be posted to this page as soon as they become available. At IPBES 7, representatives of IPBES members will be presented, for discussion and possible approval, with a definitive new global assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services – the first such report since the landmark Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was published in 2005, and the first ever that is intergovernmental. A primer of this global assessment is made available in all six UN languages here: http://www.ipbes.net/ipbes7-primers At IPBES 7, the Plenary will also be invited to elect a Bureau, consisting of the Chair of IPBES, four Vice-Chairs and five other officers. Members of IPBES are invited to submit written nominations and accompanying curricula vitae of nominees by 4 January 2019. Please refer also to my letter on this matter dated 12 September 2018 (EM/2018/19) for further information. I would like to also take this opportunity to repeat the invitation to Governments to consider hosting the eighth session of the Plenary of IPBES (#IPBES8), tentatively scheduled for June or July 2020. Governments interested in hosting the eighth session are invited to inform the secretariat by email to secre...@ipbes.net as soon as possible, but no later than 28 February 2019. Further to my letter dated 4 October 2018 (EM/2018/22), inviting Governments and stakeholders to nominate experts for the assessment of invasive alien species, I wish to remind you that nominees should fill out the application form no later than 11 January 2019 and that Governments and organisations should approve the applications by 1 February 2019.   Yours sincerely, Anne Larigauderie | Executive Secretary Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Copyright © 2018 Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to the IPBES mailing list or you are a focal point, bureau, MEP, expert, stakeholder or secretariat member Our mailing address is: Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) UN Campus Platz der Vereinten Nationen 1 Bonn 53113 Germany unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences