Founder Dr. Yolanda Lopez-Maldonado participated in The First Author Meeting of the Second Global Assessment of IPBES at the UNESCO HQ in Paris, France, 26-28 Nov 2025. The gathering aimed to advance the coordination and drafting of the upcoming Second Global Assessment, which will play a critical role in informing policy and science on biodiversity and ecosystem services at multiple scales. #IPBES #policy #biodiversity #sustainability

Founder Dr. Yolanda Lopez-Maldonado participated as an expert for the Indigenous and local knowledge dialogue workshop on IPBES methods for working with Indigenous and local knowledge and the second IPBES global assessment . The Workshop was held at Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on 3-7 November 2025. It was a great opportunity to enhance IPBES' Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) methods and to explore the scope and framing of the Second Global Assessment. #IPBES #IndigenousKnow