19 December 2022

EM/2022/49

Notification: Call for suggestions for thematic or methodological issues related to biodiversity and climate change which would benefit from collaboration between IPCC and IPBES

Dear IPBES members,

I would like to invite you, in response to paragraph 8 of Plenary decision IPBES-9/1, to submit suggestions for thematic or methodological issues related to biodiversity and climate change, which would benefit from collaboration between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

The Plenary requested the Executive Secretary to make a compilation of those submissions available to the Plenary for consideration at its tenth session.

The Plenary, in its decision IPBES-9/1:

• Invited the national focal points of IPBES to engage with their IPCC counterparts to jointly consider potential means of increasing scientific cooperation and information sharing and improving understanding of relevant processes, procedures and workplans;
• Invited the Bureau of IPBES and its Executive Secretary to continue to explore with IPCC approaches for cooperation and potential joint activities between IPCC and IPBES, including as part of the seventh assessment cycle of IPCC, taking into account the options outlined in section II of the note by the secretariat on the work on biodiversity and climate change (available here), and the need for transparency of any activity, in conformity with the decisions of IPCC and the IPBES Plenary and their respective policies and procedures;
• Encouraged IPBES members, relevant stakeholders, scientific bodies and research organizations to undertake knowledge development and research regarding the interlinkages between biodiversity and climate change, including the impacts of climate change.

Please submit your suggestions to the secretariat by by 24 February 2023, using the form available here.

Please note that any requests, inputs and suggestions regarding the rolling work programme of IPBES up to 2030 need to be submitted following the process set out in notification EM/2022/38.

I thank you for your continued support to IPBES.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Anne Larigauderie | Executive Secretary
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)