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Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services IPBES

Establishment adopted

The United Nations is setting up a body to monitor global ecology modelled on its influential climate panel. Representatives from 85 countries gathered in Busan, South Korea, to approve the formation of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES [1]), which will operate much like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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The DIVERSITAS community has been heavily involved for many years in this initiative and is very happy about this positive outcome. DIVERSITAS, together with IHDP and ICSU made a series of common statements on behalf of the scientific community.
IPBES will perform regular assessments of knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services. These assessments will be scientifically independent and peer-reviewed. It will also support policy formulation and implementation, and place a major emphasis on capacity building needs to improve the science-policy interface.
The Busan conference recommended that the 65th session of the UN General Assembly (20-30 Sept 2010) considers the conclusions of the Busan meeting and take appropriate action for the establishment of IPBES. The UN meeting should be the final step in this long process, making it possible to have IPBES launched late 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity.



Source: DIVERSITAS

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