Ipieca’s role
Ipieca’s role at UNCBD COPs is to monitor negotiations, feedback the outcomes to our members and integrate them into our workstreams and guidance. Ipieca also organises its own on-site events and participates in other organisations’ events focused on supporting business to implement biodiversity action.
The Ipieca delegation at UNCBD COP events includes Ipieca secretariat members as well as biodiversity and social performance experts from Ipieca member companies. This is a real value add to stakeholders attending from UN, IGO and NGO organisations: Ipieca provides the opportunity to engage with a significant number of leading industry sustainability experts, accelerating action or facilitating insights from the industry.
When relevant or requested, Ipieca takes part in pre-COP technical consultations, workshops and meetings. These provide the scientific and technical knowledge that parties at COP events need to consider to make informed, ambitious policy decisions.
Ipieca activity at COP17
Ipieca events
UNCBD official side event
Advancing the energy sector’s actions and contributions to the GBF: navigating national biodiversity strategies and action plans and national targets
- 26 October 2026, 13:15-14:45, Blue Zone, Shaki – Marie Khan Women’s Caucus Meeting Room
- Co-hosts: Ipieca, USCIB, Fauna & Flora, IUCN, UNCBD, Malaysian Government
- Aim: to show how the energy sector is turning global biodiversity commitments into practical action across corporate decision-making and site-level operations
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Business and Finance Hub event
Capacity building for biodiversity in the energy industry
- 23 October 2026, 16:00-16:45, Blue Zone, Action Zone – Business and Biodiversity Hub
- Co-hosts: Ipieca, IUCN, UNEP-WCMC; Tandem Global
- Aim: drawing on Ipieca’s biodiversity and ecosystem services peer-to-peer workshop series, the session will highlight how industry-led training supported by conservation organisations can help build the knowledge and skills needed to deliver meaningful outcomes for biodiversity at corporate and site level in the energy sector
IUCN Pavilion event
Ipieca-IUCN marine net positive impacts principles for the energy industry launch
- 27 October 2026, 13:30-14:45, Blue Zone, IUCN Pavilion – Forum A
- Co-hosts: Ipieca, IUCN, Global Initiative for Nature, Grids and Renewables (GINGR)
- Aim: join Ipieca and IUCN for the launch of the new marine net positive impacts (NPI) principles for the energy industry, a practical framework developed to help businesses navigate the unique challenges of achieving marine NPI. This session will also showcase the work of the energy industry related to marine net positive impacts, including case studies from the private sector, the Ipieca-IUCN principles, as well as other publications by IUCN/GINGR
Ipieca participation in other organisations’ events
UNCBD official side event
From measurement to action: scaling up action on invasive alien species: the need to take a strategic approach to meet GBF target 6
- 23 October 2026, 11:30-13:00, Blue Zone, Spitak – Side Event Room 2
- Co-hosts: Fauna & Flora, IUCN, TNFD, DEFRA, UKBBF, Ipieca, and other businesses
- Aim: demonstrate how business and finance can drive scaled implementation of T6, translating recognition of risk into concrete actions across sectors and geographies