The overall objective for this coordination and support action is to support the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the implementation of its work programme aiming to strengthen the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, long-term human wellbeing and sustainable development. With the requested EU grant to the IPBES trust fund, the EU would support IPBES across all its functions and structures, including its governing bodies, its secretariat, and its work programme, addressing the further development of work on capacity and knowledge foundations, the communication and evaluation of the Platform's activities, deliverables and findings, including policy tools, and the synthesis, review, assess and critical evaluation of relevant information and knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services, generated by governments, academia, scientific organizations, nongovernmental organizations and indigenous and local communities from the EU and worldwide.

The International Resource Panel (IRP) was launched by the European Commission and set up in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 2007, at the request of Member States. Its objective is to provide scientific knowledge on the issues related to sustainable resource management so that policy makers use that knowledge to inform decision-making. The IRP addresses the topics of resource efficiency, management of raw materials and decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation. It will build a roadmap for defining a safe operating space for resource use and projecting scenarios for resource use. It will also aim at better understanding how to prevent unintended negative consequences from resource efficiency on societies. The Panel is a science-policy interface that serves as a platform for exchange between eminent scientists from around the world and the policy community. As such, it provides the scientific experts with an insight into the knowledge needs of policy makers, while providing policy makers and other stakeholders with the best available scientific knowledge on resource related issues as a basis for developing sustainable development policies. In order to achieve its objectives, the IRP will: - Publish independent, coherent and authoritative scientific assessments of policy relevance on resource use and related environmental impacts developed and made available to policymakers and other relevant stakeholders. - Communicate findings of IRP scientific assessments effectively to policymakers and other relevant stakeholders in order to improve awareness and understanding of the importance of resources for sustainable development and poverty reduction, as well as for meeting all the Sustainable development Goals (SDGs). - Conduct capacity building courses and/or workshop and develop appropriate supporting tools to enhance the capacity of policymakers and other stakeholders to understand and use relevant scientific infor

The overall objective for this action is to support the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the implementation of its rolling work programme up to 2030, as set out in annex I to decision IPBES-7/1. The IPBES rolling work programme up to 2030 aims to advance the achievement of the overall objective of IPBES, which is 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.

EFSA recently prohibited 75% of insecticides to account for their toxicity and ecotoxicity. Moreover, the spread of insecticide resistance and invasion of Europe by new tropical vectors and pests require the development of alternative biological techniques. Recently, we hypothesized that shifting the vision of the sterile male from a sexual competitor only to a specific transporter of active biocides to the targeted female might boost the impact of the sterile insect technique (SIT). Here we want to demonstrate this concept using three biocides: Pyriproxifen, Bacillus thuringiensis and a Densovirus against the Tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus). Pyriproxifen will also be tested against tsetse and fruit flies. We will test the technology both in the laboratory and at an operational scale and model the relative impacts of SIT and boosted-SIT on the dynamics of the targeted population. Moreover, we will compare the evolutionary response of the target population to these different control pressures (multiple lethal mutations, multiple lethal mutations + biocides), for three different biocides and three demographic strategies. This will generate breakthrough knowledge on the transmission of biocides and pathogens in insects and the sustainability of genetic control, provide a new control technique for mosquitoes, and improve the cost-effectiveness of SIT in tsetse and fruit flies. We will have to address technical issues associated to mass rearing, sterilization, sex separation and aerial release of mosquitoes as well as regulatory issues required for releasing sterile males coated with bioicides.