[The intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES)].

Ecology. The biodiversity and ecosystem services science-policy interface.

I n recognition of our inability to halt damaging ecosystem change (1– 4), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was asked in December 2010 to convene a meeting " to determine modalities and institutional arrangements " of a new assessment body, akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to track causes and consequences of anthropogenic ecosystem change (5). The " b...

Annex II to decision IPBES-4/1 Summary for policymakers of the assessment report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on pollinators, pollination and food production

Macroecology meets IPBES

The Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), established in 2012 to counter the biodiversity crisis, requires the best scientific input available to function as a successful science-policy interface that addresses the knowledge needs of governments for safeguarding nature and its services. For the macroecological research community, IPBES presents a great oppo...

Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet: the DIVERSITAS vision for 2012-20.

DIVERSITAS, the international programme on biodiversity science, is releasing a strategic vision presenting scientific challenges for the next decade of research on biodiversity and ecosystem services: "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Science for a Sustainable Planet". This new vision is a response of the biodiversity and ecosystem services scientific community to the accelerating loss of t...

Weaving knowledge systems in IPBES, CBD and beyond—lessons learned for sustainability

7 Indigenous and local knowledge system: a cumulative body of Indigenous peoples and local communities live in, manage and own vast areas often rich in biodiversity and critical for ecosystem services. Bridging indigenous and local knowledge systems with scientific knowledge systems is vital to enhance knowledge, practice, and ethics to move towards sustainability at multiple scales. We focus o...