Let IPBES know how you want to engage in the 2025 stakeholder survey | extended: 06.04.2025

by Franziska Fischer Tue, 03/18/2025 - 20:47
Cute European badger looking at you

Update: the original deadline has been extended by one week to 06 April 2025. Your opportunity to wrap up your answers and have your say.

IPBES wants to hear from you: What is your background? What are you interested in? And how can the platform help? Your answers and comments will improve collaboration between IPBES and stakeholders for years to come.

The survey is anonymous. You can take it in English, French or Spanish, and it only takes about 15 minutes to complete (I've tried it!). Here's how to participate:

  • As of 6 Mar 2025, over 200 people had already completed the survey. A warm thank you! Watch out for the results at the twelfth IPBES Plenary session.
     
  • As of 6 Mar 2025, a further 600 people had already started to fill in the survey. Please keep going! We need your replies, too. Simply go back to your personal link in the email you have received.
     
  • Do you want to participate and have not yet received the survey? Email the IPBES stakeholder team for your personal link.

Extended deadline: 06 April 2025

 

What is this about?

Among institutions like IPBES, the platform has a unique stakeholder engagement strategy. At the third IPBES Plenary session, member governments decided that they would not just invite other stakeholders to observe; IPBES would actively involve us in its activities.

To make sure that IPBES is meeting stakeholders' needs as best as it is able to, the platform surveys us.

>> Download the 2017 report on the first survey (1.1 MB).

>> Download the 2021 report on the second survey (2.4 MB).

 

The results of these surveys are taken seriously. They are reported to the IPBES Plenary, they are included with the mandatory reviews of IPBES to which the platform's leadership responds, and they have shaped stakeholder engagement in practice.

This third stakeholder survey in 2025 is supported by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. IUCN has been generously supporting stakeholder engagement at IPBES from the very first day, including ONet: thank you very much. 

If you have any questions about the survey, please email the IPBES stakeholder team.

 

Photo by Damian Kuzdak: European badger (Meles meles). These social animals call all of Europe their home, from Northern Scandinavia to the Mediterranean island of Crete. Download this cute image and more colourful nature photography from the IPBES Virtual Backgrounds 2025.