May 2024
In this month's newsletter:
Invitation to Join the UK IPBES Stakeholder Network
Provide your input on future consultations
Research that Caught Our Eye
Impacts of climate & nature loss, success of conservation, and more
How Should We Measure Wealth?
Upcoming webinar comparing World Bank and UNEP wealth & sustainability metrics
Notices
BSI Nature Markets consultation deadline extended to 7 June 2024
Have your say in the standardisation of UK nature markets here.
BIOECON submissions extended to 14 May 2024
Submission instructions here.
EU Commission seeking experts to join Green Advisory Service
Register to advise on Green New Deal projects here.
Invitation to Join the UK IPBES Stakeholder Network
IPBES and JNCC have reached out to UKNEE this month to promote their Stakeholder Network, which you can register to here.
The UK IPBES Stakeholder Network is open to any interested stakeholder who would like to learn more about IBPES and how to get involved. JNCC disseminates opportunities to partake in or review IPBES work and communicates relevant events the network may be interested in attending.
The aforementioned information is circulated via a newsletter. A quarterly email is sent to provide an update on the work programme of IPBES while additional communications are sent out on an ad hoc basis when IPBES puts out a call for stakeholder input.
In the coming months, IPBES will soon disseminate a call for external reviews on the Business and Biodiversity Assessment, the second external review of the Transformative Change Assessment, and for the first external review of the draft scoping report for the 2nd Global Assessment.
Research & News that caught our eye
GFI: Nature degradation could cause a 12% loss to UK GDPÂ | Link
World economy is committed to a 19% income reduction by 2050Â | Link
Global trends and scenarios for biodiversity and ecosystem services, 1900-2050Â | Link
Conservation is effective in restoring biodiversity | Link
Frugivores enhance carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes | Link
Large variation in emissions from tropical peat swamp forests | Link
Heat mortality has increased 30% in Europe in 20 years | Link
Companies that ignore climate risks lose market value | Link
How Should We Measure Wealth?
Our Next Webinar with Nick Hanley and Eoin McLaughlin
Announced this week, our next webinar will welcome Professors Nick Hanley and Eoin McLaughlin. They will showcase their recent work providing the first critical comparison of the approaches to estimating changes in wealth from the World Bank and the United Nations Environment Programme.
The paper reveals important inconsistencies in how these organisations measure sustainability and the conflicting messages that policy makers receive, despite a common underlying conceptual framework linking changes in a nation’s wealth to future well-being. At the most extreme, countries that perform the worst according to the UN are shown to perform well according to the World Bank. This confusion in signals makes better policy making more difficult.
The session will be chaired by Robert Marks, whose experience at the World Bank will support and inform the discussion.Â