Join ONet at the IPBES 11 Plenary session

by Franziska Fischer Wed, 02/14/2024 - 12:34
City
Windhoek and online
Country
Namibia
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Event link
IPBES 11 Plenary
Oryx gazella in the Namib Desert

Last updated 11 December 2024. Watch this space for future updates.

Stakeholder meetings at IPBES 11 are held in the Brandberg room at 09:00 CAT.

IPBES Plenary sessions are the platform's main conferences, where representatives of all member governments and several observers meet. The Plenary is the governing body of IPBES. In 2024, the Plenary is meeting in Africa for the first time.

Following the 2024 Plenary session, IPBES is expected to publish the Nexus assessment report and the Transformative change assessment report. Please see below for further details on this year's main topics.

The 11th IPBES Plenary session is meeting from 10 to 16 December 2024, at Mercure Hotel Windhoek, Corner of Auas, 9000 Aviation Road, Windhoek, Namibia. It is a hybrid event: one can attend in person or online.

The ONet Facilitation Team keeps updating this page. Keep reading for

  • Opportunities for stakeholders to participants in the Plenary session.
     
  • ONet at the Plenary session, including the session's main topics.
     
  • How to prepare and stay informed, including information for new delegates.
     
  • A timeline of events related to the Plenary session for stakeholders.
     
  • How to register.
     
  • A list of formal IPBES notifications related to the Plenary session.

(Are you interested in joining ONet? >> See our welcome page for IPBES 11)

 

Opportunities for stakeholders to participate in the Plenary session

  • Actively participate as a delegate, either in person or online: meet among stakeholders at IPBES 11 in the Brandberg room daily at 09:00 CAT.
     
  • Join in drafting the Stakeholder Opening Statement. This opportunity is open to everyone, whether or not you are attending the Plenary session.
     
  • IPBES stakeholders are invited to showcase their achievements by submitting a poster to the event. This opportunity is open to everyone: whether you are attending in person, attending online, or not attending the Plenary session itself.
     
  • If time permits: join in drafting the Stakeholder Closing Statement (see below for information).
     
  • Follow the daily reports by the IISD Earth Negotiations Bulletin.
     
  • Introduce the Nexus assessment and the Transformative change assessment in your community. Both will be presented at this Plenary session: see the information on the media launch with useful materials for everyone to share among your community.

 

ONet at the Plenary session

Also see the official event page, including the preliminary agenda and further information for participants.

  • Following tradition, we will communally draft a stakeholder opening statement in advance of the Plenary session: alongside IIFBES, ONet is allocated speaking time during the opening ceremony. Statements from previous years are available on ONet.
     
  • ONet will be on location throughout the event. For information how to join ONet's morning meetings during the Plenary session and on joint work among stakeholders and observer organizations in Windhoek, email the facilitation team.
     
  • Provided that there is sufficient time in the plenary's schedule, ONet will also develop and deliver a stakeholder closing statement over the course of the Plenary session. On the ONet website, you can find closing statements from previous years that have been delivered.
     

Main topics

At this session, the Plenary will consider:

  • the thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health (nexus assessment).
     
  • the thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss and the determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity (transformative change assessment).
     
  • the scoping report for the second global assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services.
     
  • engagement with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
     
  • other items according to the agenda and documents (see the official website).

 

How to prepare and stay informed

  • Public information on the IPBES 11 Plenary is available on the IPBES website, including the published agenda, documents, etc.
     
  • IPBES has prepared primers on the forthcoming assessment reports, short briefing documents.
     
  • Daily reports throughout the proceedings are published by the IISD Earth Negotiations Bulletin.
     
  • Official communication from IPBES is sent to the IPBES stakeholder registry. Stakeholders are encouraged to sign up for both ONet and the stakeholder registry.
     

Information for new delegates (and refreshers for the experienced)

 

Timeline of events for stakeholders

Are you excited about #IPBES11? Show your support with an IPBES-11 virtual background for video conferences: choose yours.
 

 

How to register

All events listed on this page are free to attend:* you can attend in person or online.

  • Everyone is welcome to attend the ONet Caucus. Simply register online prior to the meeting.
     
  • Everyone is welcome to attend Stakeholder Day. Register online by 10 November 2024. To see the registration form log in or create a free account. Registration for Stakeholder Day is separate from registration for the Plenary session.
     
  • Applications for the Youth Workshop are now closed.
     
  • To attend an IPBES Plenary session, you need a nomination. Observer registrations for this Plenary session formally closed on 30 September 2024, however online registration has been extended to 15 November 2024. If you are interested in joining subsequent Plenary sessions, please sign up to the stakeholder registry to receive the official invitations. You will need to be nominated by a government or an accredited observer organization;** several months in advance of a Plenary session IPBES will usually also invite new organizations to apply for that status.

 

* Please note that free attendance normally includes the events themselves: you or your sponsor are responsible for, e.g., travel, accommodation and meals. Participants in the Youth Workshop are fully funded for the workshop. There is usually also travel funding for one delegate to the Plenary session from each developing member country.

** ONet is a stakeholder network and not an observer organization. Thus, ONet does not nominate for attendance at plenary sessions. However, some of our organization members may nominate delegations: for example CETAF, IUCN, NTFP-EP, and YESS (YESS is currently represented on the ONet facilitation team by Kanto Razanajatovo).

 

Formal IPBES notifications concerning the 11th IPBES Plenary session

Most of the following notifications are also available in Arabic (عر ب), Chinese (中文), French (français), Russian (русский), and Spanish (español): see the links in the English version.

  • Save the date: EM/2024/04.
     
  • Invitation to IPBES members and observers (states not members of IPBES): EM/2024/20.
     
  • Invitation to observer organizations: EM/2024/21.
     
  • Preparatory process for IPBES 11: EM/2024/41.

 

Looking forward to seeing you in Namibia!

 

Photo by Juan Carlos Munoz on Adobe Stock: gemsbok (Oryx gazella) in the Namib Desert, Namibia. This species is highly adapted to its dry and barren homelands. The gemsbok is Namibia's national animal and features on its coat of arms.