1255. FFPRI Webinar on Achieving Biodiversity Targets and Realizing a Sustainable Society: Latest Research Trends and Future Challenges from the Perspectives of the IPBES Nexus and Transformative Change Assessments

Date: 6 June 2025, Friday, 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Website (in Japanese): https://www.ffpri.affrc.go.jp/event/2025/20250606ipbes/index.html

Registration: To participate in this webinar, please register in advance using the form below.
https://ffpri-affrc.webex.com/weblink/register/r24b7f09620afe7b3206b6ef…
(Deadline: 5 June 2025, Thursday)

Overview:
In December 2022, the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.” This international framework, building on the achievements and lessons learned from the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, as well as the experiences and outcomes of other relevant multilateral environmental agreements, and in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, sets out an ambitious plan to implement a wide range of actions to transform the relationship between biodiversity and our societies by 2030 and achieve the 2050 vision of living in harmony with nature.

Two new assessment reports, the “Nexus Assessment” and the “Transformative Change Assessment,” have been published by the IPBES*, which summarize scientific knowledge that is important for solving issues related to biodiversity, other environmental issues, and sustainable development in an integrated manner, as well as the transformative change necessary to achieve this shared vision. Four experts involved in the preparation of these assessment reports will introduce the latest research related to the reports and discuss how to implement the solutions outlined in the reports in our society.

*IPBES is an intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services established to strengthen the science-policy interface on biodiversity and ecosystem services for the conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of its components and services, and the achievement of long-term well-being for human societies and sustainable development.

Program:
Aim of the webinar
Takuya Furukawa (Senior Researcher, FFPRI)
Greetings from the Ministry of the Environment
Aya Nagata (Director, Office for Mainstreaming Biodiversity, Policy Planning Division, Nature Conservation Bureau, Ministry of the Environment)
Presentation 1: “The nexus assessment and research trends: Overview of nexus research”
Ronald C. Estoque (Senior Researcher, FFPRI)
Presentation 2: “The nexus assessment and its realization: Nexus issues from the lens of food systems
Miyuki Iiyama (Program Director, Information Program, JIRCAS)
Presentation 3: “The transformative change assessment and research trends: Introduction to different approaches to transformative change”
Maiko Nishi (Professor, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University)
Presentation 4: “The transformative change assessment and its realization: An integrated perspective on biodiversity, climate change, and sustainable development”
Kanako Morita (Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University)
Discussion
Closing remarks
Tohru Nakashizuka (Director General, FFPRI)

Organizer: FFPRI
Supporters: Ministry of the Environment, Forestry Agency, JIRCAS, Japanese Forest Society, Ecological Society of Japan, and Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies