Save the Date: IPBES12 & Stakeholder Day 2026
Organised by IPBES, ONet, IIFBES
03-08 February 2025, Manchester, United Kingdom | in person
The IPBES Plenary (IPBES12) and Stakeholder Day will be hosted by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
IPBES12 will consider interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food, and health as well as transformative change. The Stakeholder Day will be held on 2 February. Registration deadline is 2 January 2026.
>> Register here for Stakeholder Day!
Please note that registration is required for anyone, including IPBES member and observer State delegates, to attend Stakeholder Day and is separate from the accreditation and registration process for the IPBES Plenary session. Successful registration for Stakeholder Day does not grant access to the Plenary session. Once registered, you will receive an email confirming your registration.
There will be regional consultation prior to the plenary, and a Stakeholder Day on 2nd February 2026.
>> More information about the IPBES 12 Plenary session taking place in Manchester, UK
This year’s Plenary will discuss some specific topics, for instance:
- The Nexus Assessment
- The methodological assessment of the impact and dependence of business on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people
- The scoping report for the Second Global Assessment
- Building capacity, strengthening knowledge foundations and supporting policy
- Improving the effectiveness of IPBES
Message from the UK Government's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
The UK is delighted to host IPBES-12 in Manchester in February next year! We believe it presents a great opportunity for the UK to not only demonstrate global leadership at the nexus of business innovation, finance, nature and science but also to provide a fantastic launchpad for the business and biodiversity assessment working with businesses, our brilliant scientific community and other key organisations to raise awareness and start to put into practice some of the outcomes of this assessment.
We have a dedicated IPBES-12 team working hard to lead the development and plans to ensure IPBES-12 itself is a truly memorable and impactful event as well as planning and delivering an ambitious Parallel Programme to complement our hosting of IPBES-12.
If you would like to keep abreast of ongoing developments with IPBES-12, please contact our dedicated mailbox ipbes12@defra.gov.uk to be added to our IPBES-12 newsletter mailing list. Further, if you have any ideas about UK involvement in the IPBES-12 Stakeholder Day then please do get in touch with your ONet representatives who can feed this back to us. We look forward to seeing many of you at IPBES-12 itself!
The UK IPBES-12 Team.
>> More information about the IPBES 12 Plenary session
>> We would also like to inform you that there will be opportunities to highlight IPBES-related stakeholder initiatives during #IPBES12, via posters displayed on the conference premises during the entire duration of both Stakeholder Day (2 February) and the Plenary session (3-8 February). The posters should showcase exclusively examples of successful uptake and impact of IPBES outputs: illustrations of how stakeholders have used IPBES assessments or other outputs and the impact achieved.
Conditions and requirements:
- Posters should not be smaller than A3 in size (29.7 x 42.0 cm) and not larger than A1 (59.4 x 84.1 cm), exclusively in ‘portrait’ format/layout.
- A maximum of two posters per individual/organizations will be accepted.
- All posters will require the pre-approval of the IPBES secretariat and only approved posters will be displayed. All interested participants must send an electronic copy of the intended poster to stakeholders@ipbes.net before 31 December 2025. Response on approval will be provided by email.
- Please include in the submission the author’s name and country/institutional affiliation. The submission email must also include an indication of which IPBES output is highlighted in the poster.
- IPBES will not be responsible for printing of the posters, authors must please bring their printed poster to the venue. The IPBES Secretariat can organise transport of posters to Manchester for early submissions: submitters wishing to make us of this option must ensure their approved and printed poster reaches the IPBES Secretariat in Bonn, Germany no later than 15 January 2026.
Photo by Rafael Leão on Unsplash: Tabebuia chrysotricha (commonly known as golden trumpet tree) in full bloom