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[IPBES Podcast] Nature Insight: Speed dating with guest David Cooper

WED // 9.3.2022
The guests of this week’s Nature Insight podcast about the values of nature are Professor Patty Balvanera and David Cooper, Deputy Executive Secretary at the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

The values of nature

This episode of Nature Insight (9 March 2022) highlights the work of IPBES experts on the values of nature. Ahead of the publication of the IPBES Values Assessment in July 2022, the podcast explores what those values are, why it is important to understand them, and how all these different perspectives can be pulled together into actions to protect nature and biodiversity.

This week’s guests are Professor Patty Balvanera and David Cooper. Patty is one of the co-chairs of the IPBES Values Assessment and works at the Institute for Ecosystem and Sustainability Research, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. David is the Deputy Executive Secretary at the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, a global treaty that protects the diversity of life on earth.

 

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About Nature Insight: Speed Dating with the Future

Join Rob and Brit as they ‘speed date’ with the future! Each week, they introduce listeners to people with unique insights into the values of nature and our relationship with it. Speed dating is about having a short time to communicate things that could change your life. That’s exactly what the IPBES podcast is doing, by introducing listeners to people with unique insight into our relationship with nature.

 

About IPBES

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an independent intergovernmental body established by States to strengthen the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, long-term human well-being and sustainable development. It was established in Panama City, on 21 April 2012 by 94 Governments.  It is not a United Nations body.  However, at the request of the IPBES Plenary and with the authorization of the UNEP Governing Council in 2013, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides secretariat services to IPBES

 

To recap