IPBES Transformative Change Assessment: Chapter 5. Realizing a sustainable world for nature and people: transformative strategies, actions and roles for all

The IPBES Transformative Change Assessment is a major scientific assessment conducted by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). It analyzed how transformative change—deep, systemic change in human society—can help halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystem services. Chapter  5 of the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment outlines five core strategies for enacting change. These strategies are designed to be interdependent and mutually reinforcing, forming multiple pathways toward achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity. I was to co-lead of Strategy 1 to conserve and regenerative places of value to nature and people.

Strategy 1 builds on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to conserve, restore and sustainably use biodiversity, as well as corresponding targets in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. These are integrated into the broader goal of regenerating biocultural diversity - the interconnected biological and cultural diversity of life. This strategy takes a transformative biocultural conservation approach to conserve and sustain the places where people and nature are still flourishing.

Five actions to conserve and regenerate places of value to nature and people. Inside the circle actions conserve biocultural diversity where people and nature still thrive. The principles of transformative change help to expand the circle and transform extractive views, structures, and practices. Challenges to transformation indicate resistance or ‘push back.’ Outside the circle actions shift extractive land-use systems and advance integrated spatial planning towards regenerative views, structures, and practices – also expanding the circle.