Biodiversity is declining at unprecedented rates, which will lead to significant consequences at a global scale. To mitigate and reverse these processes, transformative change is required across scales including a fundamental, system-wide reorganisation in technological, economic and social factors, including paradigms, goals and values. The implementation of such changes would result in biodiversity being valued, conserved, restored, and wisely used in line with the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity of “Living in Harmony with Nature”.
The CBD sets out diverse mechanisms to support and enable its implementation. Promoting international technical and scientific cooperation in the field of conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity through the appropriate international and national institutions is at the core of the efforts of the international community to advance the biodiversity agenda (CBD, Article 18). The Convention’s Clearing House Mechanism (CHM), including its national CHM network, was established to facilitate this, but needs further strengthening in order to play its full part.
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The RESPIN project is grounded in a triad of core objectives. First, it seeks to support the integrated provision and use of IPBES and IPCC processes and outputs, empowering decision-makers at different levels across the globe to uptake the knowledge and capacity-building provided by the two organs. Second, gaps are to be identified in the knowledge provision in pursuit of ideas on addressing them and improved engagement of diverse knowledge holders (with a particular emphasis on underrepresented regions in Central Africa, Central Asia, and Latin America). Last but not least, RESPIN also provides backing for the knowledge uptake of IPBES and IPCC outputs in the EU science service mechanism, as well as national and subnational decision-making processes.