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. Further information on these events will also follow in due course.

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 

Photo by Rafael Leão on Unsplash: Tabebuia chrysotricha (commonly known as golden trumpet tree) in full bloom