Annex
Request for consideration by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the context of its strategic framework and work programme towards 2030
1.The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is invited to take into account the following considerations when developing its strategic framework and work programme towards 2030:(a)The key scientific and technical needs for the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, endorsed in decision XII/1, remain valid and should therefore continue to be considered in the design and delivery of future activities of the Platform across all four of its functions;(b)The scope and timing of a future global assessment, including consideration of a single assessment that integrates the regional and global components, including resource requirements for the regional components, should be considered carefully to serve the assessment needs arising from the post-2020 global biodiversity framework as well as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in relation to biodiversity and ecosystem services. Overlap with other activities, analyses and assessments, including possible future editions of the Global Biodiversity Outlook, should be minimized and synergies maximized;(c)The need for a gender equality and women’s empowerment perspective in its strategic framework and in the implementation of its work programme towards 2030;(d)There is a strong need to further enhance cooperation with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with a view to promoting coherence between the scenarios and related assessments prepared in the context of biodiversity and climate change, including consideration of joint assessment activities, and to fostering further enhanced collaboration between the scientific communities related to these bodies;(e)There is a continued need for work on scenarios and models to assess pathways towards, and the transformational change required for, a sustainable future;(f)The steps being taken by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services to further integrate the four functions of the Platform will help to ensure that its deliverables are relevant to the work under the Convention;(g)The knowledge and data gaps that have been identified in the first work programme should be addressed;(h)The importance of communication with organizations and initiatives, such as One Health, the International Resource Panel, the One Planet Network, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Global Compact, the United Nations Statistics Division, the International Integrated Reporting Council, the Natural Capital Coalition and its biodiversity working group, and the Global Reporting Initiative, among others;2.Noting that further scoping and prioritization of the needs of the Convention will arise from developing and implementing the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is also invited to take into account the following initial requests for its rolling work programme towards 2030:(a)Understand and assess the behavioural, social, economic, institutional, technical and technological determinants of transformational change, and how these may be deployed to achieve the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity;(b)Develop a multidisciplinary approach to understand the interactions of the direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity loss;(c)Assess issues at the nexus of biodiversity, food and water, agriculture and health, nutrition and food security, forestry and fisheries, considering trade-offs among these areas and related policy options regarding sustainable production and consumption, pollution and urbanization, including implications for energy and climate, taking into account the role of biodiversity and ecosystem services in addressing the Sustainable Development Goals, with a view to enabling decisions that support the coherent policy and transformational change necessary to achieve the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity;(d)Undertake methodological assessments on the effectiveness of various policy instruments and policy and planning support tools for understanding on how to achieve transformational change, and to characterize and quantify successful approaches and cases of the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, and their impacts;(e)Assess the potential positive and negative impacts of productive sectors and undertake a methodological assessment of the criteria, metrics and indicators of the impacts of productive sectors on biodiversity and ecosystem services as well as the benefits derived from biodiversity and ecosystem services, with a view to enabling business to reduce such negative impacts and to promote consistency in assessment and reporting, taking into account the direct and indirect pressures on biodiversity as well as the interconnections between them.