Brazilian Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BPBES) embraces currently five Thematic Assessments: Pollination, pollinators and food production, Indigenous people and Traditional communities, Climate change, Water and Ecosystem services restoration.
Inspired by the positive results of the thematic reports produced by the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), BPBES also supports and encourages the production of documents focusing on relevant issues to biodiversity and ecosystem services. These issues need further discussion in the Brazilian context and the reports aim to point out ways to synchronize the progress of nature conservation with human well-being.
BPBES currently supports the development of five thematic reports:
- Pollination, Pollinators and Food Production – the first thematic assessment of BPBES has been produced together with REBIPP (Brazilian Plant-Pollinator Interaction Network). At the present time, the report is on final phase and has already undergone an external review
(members of government, private sector, researchers). Launch is scheduled for mid-November 2018, shortly after the Brazilian Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Assessment. - Contribution of Indigenous Peoples (IP) and Traditional Local Communities (TLC) for Brazilian Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – this important subject thrived and became a project funded by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Cristina Adams (University of São Paulo, USP) and Manuela Carneiro da Cunha (USP and University of Chicago) coordinate this project which will analyze the drivers that affect the relationship between IP & TLC with biodiversity and ecosystem services. The initiative has already about eighty collaborators and is expected to be released on the second half of 2019.
- Climate Change – this is a partnership between the Brazilian Panel of Climate Change (PBMC, in its Portuguese acronym), BPBES and the Boticário Group Foundation for Nature Protection. Coordinated by Fabio Scarano (BPBES and Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development), Suzana Kahn and Andrea Santos (both PBMC and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ), the report is in its early version. Lauching is planned by late 2019.
- Water: biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being – the group of researchers is led by Aliny Pires and Vinícius Farjalla, both from UFRJ and BPBES collaborators. Three major meetings already took place (within the World Water Forum, the Energy Research Office, EPE in its Portuguese acronym, and the Brazilian Association of Limnology, ABLimno). Collaborators are from UFRJ, Ministry of Environment (MMA), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Emílio Goeldi Museum, Brazilian Association of Limnology, BioSustente, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and International Institute for Sustainability (IIS). The document is already in an advanced version with the expected completion by December 2018.
- Ecosystem services restoration – coordinated by Bernardo Strassburg and Renato Crouzeilles (from the International Institute for Sustainability, IIS). Three workshops covering the following topics were already organized: water, carbon and biodiversity. Prediction of launching in 2019.