Event Report: Biodiversity is foundational to food, water, climate and health agendas

Co-organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BZ), the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature (LVVN), the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), IUCN Netherlands and the Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP), the event was a cross-disciplinary act itself.

The event underscored the opportunity and urgency of embedding biodiversity across food, water, climate and health agendas. The assessments provide the in-depth evidence and options to do so. The use cases of the breakout sessions inspired how insights can be used and action can be taken, with roles for everyone.

Wampie Libon, Director of Inclusive Green Growth from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Pim Fischer, Manager of DG Nature at LVVN, kicked off the day, emphasizing the opportunity of working together on biodiversity across sectors and of the scientific knowledge brought together in the IPBES assessments.

• The morning plenary dived into the IPBES science-policy interface, the content of the assessments and youth perspectives, provoking rich discussions with the audience. 
  The morning plenary can be viewed here.

• The afternoon was structured in breakout sessions around six use cases – three grounded in the Dutch context, three focused on international development. The use case sessions inspired discussions on how to translate key insights into concrete steps for sustainable, nature-inclusive food, water, and land systems.
  This part of the event was in-person only and no recordings are available

The Nexus IPBES assessment is available here, the Transformative Change assessment here.