European Nodes Meeting 2013Wednesday 6 – 8 March Joensuu Finland

Update on GBIF engagement issues

Olaf BánkiSenior Programme Officer for Participation

Current status of GBIF Participation

Status on 1 March 2013

Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook components

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Discovery

Comprehensive Knowledge

Access

Aggregated Species Trait

Data

Fitness-for-use & Annotations

Taxonomic Framework

Integrated Occurrence

Data

Knowledge Generation

Prioritising New Data Capture

Visualization & Dissemination

Multiscalar Spatial

Modelling

Trends & Predictions

Modelling Biological Systems

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Data Standards Policy Incentives

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Sequences & Genomes

Field Surveys & Observations

Published Materials

Collections & Specimens

Automated & Remote-sensed

Observations

Assessments and Indicators

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GBIO timeline•2-4 Jul 2012 – GBIC Conference

• Jul-Oct 2012 – team input/editing

•11 Oct 2012 – GBIO outline at CBD COP 11

•Oct 2012-Feb 2013 – review/response

•Feb-Mar 2013 – contract for author to create circulation draft

•Apr-May 2013 – review by GBIC attendees

•May-June 2013 – final release

GIASIPPartnership

Global Invasive Alien Species Information Partnership

ObjectivesThe GIASIPartnership has come together in order to assist Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, and others, implement Article 8(h) and Target 9 of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets:

“By 2020, invasive alien species and pathways are identified and prioritized, priority species are controlled or eradicated, and measures are in place to manage pathways to prevent their introduction and establishment”

Working GroupsDuring its first phase, the following Working Groups are established:

1. The Partnership Gateway functionalities;2. Database interoperability, data gaps and quality

improvement;3. Information synthesis and assessment;4. Taxonomic information services; and5. Best practices for the non-electronic means of

information access and exchange.

Join us!

Since COP11, many organizations have already signed a memorandum of cooperation with the CBD to set up a Global Invasive Alien Species Information Partnership (GIASIP)

IUCN/ISSG NHM-London

GBIFNHM-Paris

GBIF – contributing 10+ years of biodiversity informatics ’construction’ expertise to GEO BON (and GEOSS)

WG8 on Data Integration & Interoperability

Advancing with infrastructure to combine species occurrence and abundances data

Increasing GBIF’s relevance for REDD+

Access, discovery, and use of tree abundance data

Project to develop standards for data flow from forest plot inventories in GBIF to serve biomass assessments

Phase II proposal submitted

SEP-CEPDEC

IPBES origins

”…the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has brought about a scientific consensus on the reality and significance of global warming … We need a similar type of mechanism for biodiversity… I hereby call on all scientists to join forces in order to set up a worldwide network of experts … the creation of an intergovernmental group on biodiversity changes.”

Jacques Chirac – UNESCO conference, Biodiversity, Science and GovernanceJan 2005

Main functions:

• To identify and prioritize key scientific information needed for policymakers and to catalyse efforts to generate new knowledge;

• To perform regular and timely assessments of knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services and their interlinkages;

• To support policy formulation and implementation by identifying policy-relevant tools and methodologies;

• To prioritize key capacity-building needs to improve the science-policy interface, and to provide and call for financial and other support for the highest-priority needs related directly to its activities.

Possible IPBES WP elements (from intersessional doc) of particular relevance to GBIF

• Identifying and filling knowledge gaps

• Partnerships with ‘long term monitoring programmes and .. Programmes that help to ensure the availability of … data’

• Link those with capacity building needs with those in a position to address those needs

• ‘Promote free and open access to data, information and knowledge.. And build capacity to use such data, information and knowledge’

GBIF-IPBES engagement 2012-13

• April 2012, IPBES Plenary, Panama: joint info doc with IUCN, UNEP-WCMC, GBIFS: ‘Building effectively on … existing organizations and initiatives’ UNEP/IPBES.MI/2/INF/15

• Joint side event with IUCN and UNEP-WCMC at Panama plenary

• August 2012, intersessional submission from GBIFS: ‘GBIF and IPBES’ (on capacity building and scoping process)

• Jan 2013, briefing for IPBES-1: ‘GBIF and IPBES’ http://www.gbif.org/orc/?doc_id=5079

GBIF-IPBES engagement 2012-13

Key decisions from IPBES-1 (Bonn, Jan 2013)

• Set up IPBES Bureau (inc. chair, vice-chairs), includes 2 GBIF HoDs http://www.ipbes.net/about-ipbes/current-bureau-members.html

• Set up Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP), 5 experts per UN region

http://www.ipbes.net/about-ipbes/current-mep-members.html

• Established intersessional process for drafting first IPBES work programme, guidance on partnerships etc. before IPBES-2 (Dec 2013?)

GBIF-IPBES engagement 2012-13

Key upcoming opportunities:

• By 5 May 2013: Submission of requests (for countries) and inputs/suggestions (stakeholders e.g. GBIF) to IPBES – template at http://www.ipbes.net/plenary/intersessional

• 27-31 May 2013: 7th Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity – first MEP meeting?

• Before IPBES-2 (Dec 2013):

• Opportunity to comment on draft IPBES work programme

• Opportunity to comment on guidance for possible strategic partnerships with IPBES

Issues to raise

• How to engage with IPBES?• GBIF as a data-science interface• What is the regional approach of the EU

Nodes?• Connection to KNEU project about setting

up a network of knowledge in Europe• Relation EU Nodes & European

Commission