The IPBES Assessment on Transformative Changes: How Can We Transform Our Societies to Live in Harmony with Nature?

Last December, at its^11th plenary session in Namibia, IPBES adopted the report on the thematic assessment of transformative changes. The University of Montpellier, which has hosted the technical support unit responsible for this assessment since 2022, is organizing a morning of roundtable discussions to present the report’s findings, with the authors and interdisciplinary researchers from the Montpellier campus in attendance.

The purpose of this morning session is to present the key scientific findings regarding the urgent need to transform our societies in response to the biodiversity crisis, the various proposed strategies, the roles that everyone—policy makers, private sector actors, and the general public—must play to facilitate these transformations, and the knowledge needs related to research. While IPBES reports are receiving increasing media attention, the platform remains largely unknown to the general public (it is sometimes referred to as the “IPCC of biodiversity”), and applications from French experts to participate in thematic assessments are scarce. This half-day event will also be an opportunity to (re)discover the importance of participating in IPBES’s work, the various ways to contribute, and to hear feedback from the authors and the technical support unit on this experience.

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