ECA Regional Assessment:

Overview of the process and the FOD

Marine Elbakidze, CLA

Markus Fischer, co-chair

Mark Rounsevell, co-chair

Content

• Diversity of ECA

• The First Order Draft: overview of

individual chapters

• The ECA assessment procedure

ECA region and sub-regions

Western

Europe

Central

Europe

Eastern

Europe

Central

Asia

56 countries

40 – members of IPBES

ECA region: main gradients

Gradient

Ecosystems Tundra forests steppe and deserts

Landscape history

Long human intervention short history

of human impact

Land use intensity Intensive commercial land use/highly

urbanized regions old-growth forests

and natural steppe

Governance

systems

Bottom-up top-down systems of

governance

Level of personal

income/consumption

Very high very low

ECA in pictures

ECA in pictures

ECA in pictures

ECA in pictures

ECA in pictures

1. Comprises the relationships between nature and

human well-being and the associated broad values

2. Seeks to create new insights through summary and

synthesis using qualitative and quantitative

methods

3. Done by a credible group of experts from natural

and social sciences with a broad range of skills

who are:

• nominated by governments and other stakeholders

• selected among nominees by the Multidisciplinary

Expert Panel of IPBES

The ECA assessment:

• 125 authors (co-chairs, CLA, LA, young fellows)

• 4% - CA, 16% -CE, 8% - EE, 72% - WE

• 65% - natural sciences, 35% -social sciences with expertise: of which economics (16%); specifically fresh water (13%), marine (9%) or terrestrial (20%); ILK (5%)

• 39% - female, 61% - male

Authors

Chapter 1: Setting the scene

The First Order Draft: Chapters

Chapter 2: Nature’s benefits to people and quality of life

The First Order Draft: Chapters

Chapter 3: Status, trends and future dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystems underpinning nature’s benefits to people

The First Order Draft: Chapters

Chapter 4: Direct and indirect drivers of change in the context of different perspectives on quality of life

The First Order Draft: Chapters

Chapter 5: Integrated and cross-scale analysis of interactions of the natural world and human society

The First Order Draft: Chapters

Chapter 6: Options for governance, institutional arrangements and private/public decision making across scales and sectors

The First Order Draft: Chapters

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4 Chapter 5

Chapter 6

The First Order Draft: Chapters

Land degradation

Indigenous and local

knowledge

Summary: the FOD draft

• The IPBES Conceptual Framework

• Broad set of values of nature and its benefits to people

• Efforts to integrate natural and human sciences and knowledge systems

• Drivers and their links with human wellbeing

• Efforts to include local & practical knowledge

• Diverse data, information and knowledge sources

• Options for policy and practice, and for the future

Main challenges

• Data and knowledge gaps

• Harmonization of data

• Gathering ILK

• Enormous scope of the assessment

Internal communication

• CLA monthly calls

• Every two months calls with ECA

management committee

• Internal calls/meetings within Chapters

(e.g. Swedish EPA funds a writing

workshop for LAs of Chapter 4)

• Regular communication among authors

based on needs

External communication

• At the IPBES plenary

• Regular contacts with stakeholders, in

particular data holders

• At stakeholder meetings in different sub-

regions

• Presentations at conferences and meetings,

e.g. at European Environment Agency

8-step procedure of ECA assessment

FOD

Review by academic and non-academic experts

SOD

Review by Governments, experts and ILK-holders

First draft summary for policy-makes (SPM)

Final draft and SPM

SPM on 6 languages

Review by Governments

Available on IPBES web-site

Plenary review, acceptance

2015 2018

Expectations for PESC-4

• Exchange with various stakeholders

• Constructive comments