6th IPBES Plenary Assembly in Colombia, March 2018
From March 17th-24th, 2018 the sixth plenary assembly of IPBES takes place in Medellin, Colombia. The plenary assembly in Medellin is the annual meeting were all governments decide which way IPBES shall develop. This year will be important since a total of five international IPBES assessments will be presented and accepted: four regional assessments (Europe & Central Asia, The Americas, Africa and Far East and Oceania) and a thematic assessment on land degradation. All these assessments are important documents for e.g. the Global Biodiversity Outlook and post-2020 targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity. In addition, the assessments are all…