Resource description:
The assessment focuses on transformative change that deliberately contributes to achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity and global sustainability. It builds on past IPBES contributions that recognize the importance of transformative change for fully addressing biodiversity loss and nature’s decline.
The IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services defined transformative change as “a fundamental, system-wide reorganization across technological, economic and social factors, including paradigms, goals and values”. The Transformative Change Assessment builds on and further clarifies this definition, focusing on what transformative change means, how it occurs and how to promote and accelerate it for a just and sustainable world. Transformative change that matches the scope, scale, speed and depth necessary to maintain life on this planet calls for new understandings and strategic approaches that yield positive results for biodiversity and nature.
Drawing on a rapidly growing body of literature and informed by evidence from diverse scientific disciplines and different knowledge systems, the Transformative Change Assessment recognizes that a simple system ide reorganization of constituent elements is not enough.
Author/Contact:
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)