Paris welcomes the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (November 26, 2025)

This morning at UNESCO, Éléonore Caroit, the Minister Delegate for Francophonie, International Partnerships and French Nationals Abroad, opened the first meeting bringing together the authors of the global assessment issued by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). This platform would enable us to draft a new status review on global biodiversity loss by 2028 and to call on States to step up their conservation efforts.

Addressing the President of IPBES, the Executive Secretary and 120 scientists from all over the world, the Minister reaffirmed France’s unwavering commitment to free, rigorous, independent science, an essential component of the international effort to tackle biodiversity loss and climate change.

She stressed the major role played by IPBES in amassing information that is vital to public decision-making and noted that France will continue to actively support the platform and its scientific community.

At a time when science is under attack and is confronted with disinformation campaigns that undermine climate and environmental action, Éléonore Caroit urged States and their negotiators to ensure that their goals are rooted in science ahead of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 17), which will be held in Armenia in October 2026.