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There are many actions that financial actors can take to create an enabling environment to align what's beneficial for businesses with what's good for nature.

100+ actions for ALL actors in the IPBES #BizBiodiversity Report: https://www.ipbes.net/bba-report/media-release

Everyone has a role to play in creating an enabling environment to align what's beneficial for businesses with what's good for nature.

See the more than 100 actions for ALL actors in the NEW IPBES #BizBiodiversity Report: https://www.ipbes.net/bba-report/media-release

Can sustainability boost profits? 🌿 The newest @ipbes@mas.to report reveals that businesses can reverse biodiversity loss while improving their financial results. Let's make nature everyone's business!

https://www.renewablematter.eu/en/business-as-usual-eroding-biodiversity-safeguarding-it-is-also-good-for-business

🧪 #BizBiodiversity Report: http://bit.ly/IPBES12Media

Nature exploitation has long-lasting consequences. F. Eichenberger et al found that historical exploitation, combined with current ecological and demographic factors, appear to shape patterns of male reproductive success and population dynamics of humpback whales in the South Pacific & potentially worldwide.

Read more: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/12/1/241424/92936/Patterns-of-paternity-insights-into-mating

Businesses and financial institutions can act now based on existing knowledge, but limitations remain in the current knowledge base that prevent them from choosing investments that minimize negative impacts or maximize positive impacts.

#BizBiodiversity Assessment Media kit: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media

The IPBES #BizBiodiversity Report lays out 100+ actions for businesses, governments, financial institutions & civil society to align what's good for nature with what's beneficial for business.

See more in the report: https://www.ipbes.net/bba-report/media-release

OUT NOW!

The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers is available now!

Explore this first of it’s kind report highlighting methods and actions to measure and respond to business impacts and dependencies on nature.

https://ipbes.canto.de/b/JTB1U

Welcome to Manchester! 🏡

Dr. Luthando Dziba shares a warm welcome for all #IPBES12 attendees—marking his first Plenary session as Executive Secretary.

We look forward to exciting deliberations and valuable outcomes for 🧪🌍 #BizBiodiversity.

🎥 youtu.be/53FXO25ClEw

"Engaging with nature is not optional for business—it is a necessity."

—Prof. Ximena Rueda Fajardo, Co-chair of the #BizBiodiversity Assessment.

Businesses depend on nature & contribute to its decline, so they have a critical role in stewardship.

Learn more: https://ipbes.canto.de/v/S4G7FJL670/album/HURAL?viewIndex=0

#IPBES12

The @‌ipbes #BizBiodiversity Report will promote business transparency & action on nature, improve producer & consumer knowledge, and help guide financial & investment decisions.

Knowledge informs and can drive change.

🏙️ Manchester, UK • 3–8 February 2026

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Encouraging news to kick off the year! 🦍 Twin mountain gorillas were born in Virunga National Park, DR Congo. Twin births are rare, occurring in just 1% of cases, and this moment marks hope for an endangered species.

Find out more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86v3y45pyyo

The @‌ipbes #BizBiodiversity Assessment represents a groundbreaking effort to understand business dependencies and impacts on nature.

To learn more about the report that will be discussed at the #IPBES12 plenary: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG

Discover the figures behind this milestone report ⬇️

The Business and Biodiversity Assessment looks at how economic activities both depend on and affect biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people.

Which aspect are you most curious about? 👀

More info about the #BizBiodiversity report set for approval at #IPBES12: ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG

🌍 Did you know? The African continent is home to about 20% of the world’s bird species! 🦅

This incredible biodiversity is highlighted in the @ipbes@mas.to #RegionalAssessment for Africa, showcasing the continent's vital role in global ecosystems.

ℹ️ https://www.ipbes.net/assessment-reports/africa

How can we balance the need for biodiversity conservation with increased urbanization? We discuss this with guests Loan Diep and Carolina Figueroa in the latest episode of IPBES podcast Nature Insights.

Listen now: https://natureinsight.podbean.com/

“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.”

IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors.

Read more: https://www.ipbes.net/node/95839

📣REMINDER📣

The external review of the IPBEs #MonitoringAssessment is closing TODAY!

📆Closes 7 January
🗣️Who? Governments, scientists, experts, businesses, decision-makers, knowledge-holders, etc.

https://www.ipbes.net/notification/EM/2025/62

80 experts from 35 countries developed @ipbes@mas.to #BizBiodiversity Assessment.

Their findings will be discussed at #IPBES12, which will be held at Manchester Central, a former railway station that once connected global trade and now connects science and policy #ForNature.

📖 https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG

A new report from Natural Resources Wales has found that almost 3,000 species are at risk of disappearing from Wales. Steve Ormerod said the climate emergency and agricultural intensification were key pressures in the crisis.

Read more from Steven Morris in @guardian@twtr.plus: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/25/animal-fungi-lichen-species-at-risk-wales-report

The programme for #IPBES12 #StakeholderDay is now available! 🌍

Join us: 2 Feb 2026 in Manchester, to explore collaboration & showcase IPBES uptake & impacts.

Learn more: https://www.ipbes.net/ipbes12/stakeholder-day

#IPBESStakeholders