At the beginning of the previous decade it was announced that the world had fallen short of fulfilling the purpose of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Strategic Plan 2002-2010, to halt biodiversity loss. Ten years later, despite progress in various areas, none of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets were fully achieved. Soon, the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework will become the primary means of framing global aspirations to live in harmony with nature. Meanwhile, the adverse effects of climate change are becoming increasingly likely, global population is still increasing, and our consumption of resources continues to break record highs. However, the past decades have seen remarkable progress in other areas of development. Poverty has decreased dramatically, life expectancy has increased, and fewer people are killed by natural disasters or by violent crime. What do we need to do so that biodiversity, and the environment more broadly, can join these successful trends? In this session we attempt to frame the problem and start to answer this question.
Professor, Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE), University of Washington
Kristie EBI
Professor, Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE), University of Washington
Dr. Kristie L. Ebi, Ph.D., MPH is a Professor in the Center for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington. She has been conducting research on the health risks of climate variability and change for 25 years. Her research focuses on estimating current and future risks of climate change; designing adaptation policies and measures to reduce risks in multi-stressor environments; and estimating the health co-benefits of mitigation policies. She has supported multiple countries worldwide in assessing their vulnerabilities and implementing adaptation policies and programmes. She has edited four books on aspects of climate change, has more than 200 publications, and has been an author on multiple national and international climate change assessments, including the IPCC 6thAssessment Report.
Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo/ Senior Fellow, IGES / Multidisciplinary Expert Panel Member, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Lead Author for IPBES Global Assessment and the Asia-Pacific Regional Assessment
HASHIMOTO Shizuka
Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo/ Senior Fellow, IGES / Multidisciplinary Expert Panel Member, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Lead Author for IPBES Global Assessment and the Asia-Pacific Regional Assessment
Dr. Shizuka Hashimoto is an associate professor at the Department of Ecosystem Studies, School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He has more than 10 years of experience in ecosystem service evaluation and its application in landscape planning and acquired extensive experience in modelling, land-change & ecosystem service simulation, and scenario analysis. He published a number of peer-reviewed academic papers and book chapters, contributed to a Japan Satoyama Satoumi Assessment as a Coordinating Lead Author, and served as one of the expert group members for Japan Biodiversity Outlook 2 and Japan Biodiversity Outlook 3 and the revision of the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2012-2020. He has served as a member of the Science Council of Japan since 2020. At the international level, he contributed to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment and a scientific steering committee. Since 2018, he has served as one of the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel members of IPBES (2018-) and a co-chair of the IPBES task force on scenarios and models (2019-). In addition, he contributed to drafting the Science Academies of the G7’s statement on ”Reversing biodiversity loss – the case for urgent action” for the G7 summit and the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) Statement on “Climate Change and Biodiversity: Interlinkages and policy options” in 2021.
Programme Director, Biodiversity and Forests, IGES
André MADER
Programme Director, Biodiversity and Forests, IGES
André is a conservation biologist with a focus on international biodiversity policy. Prior to joining IGES in July 2018 he was based in Switzerland for 3 years, coordinating the IPBES Regional Assessment for Europe and Central Asia. Prior to that he spent 4 years at the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Canada, overseeing implementation of the Convention at the subnational level. That followed 5 years at ICLEI’s Cities Biodiversity Centre in South Africa, where he was responsible for the flagship “Local Action for Biodiversity” initiative. Earlier in his career Andre’s work, in Africa and the Middle East, included capacity development of subnational government practitioners; various ecological fieldwork; participation in the establishment of a wildlife breeding center; and management in nature reserves.
Programme Director, Climate and Energy, IGES
TAMURA Kentaro
Programme Director, Climate and Energy, IGES
Dr. Tamura obtained PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE). After working for the Yokohama National University, he joined IGES in 2003. He has centred his research on international cooperation on climate change, in particular the development and design of international climate regime, political economy and comparative studies of domestic climate and energy policy making processes in major economies. He published a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and edited books in the field of climate and energy policy.
On the Ground Practices at National and Local Levels - Climate and Biodiversity
From Science to Policy to Action