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Intergovernmental Science-Policy
Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on
Intergovernmental Science-
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an
Policy Platform on
intergovernmental organization established to improve the
Biodiversity and
interface between science and policy on issues of biodiversity
Ecosystem Services
and ecosystem services.[1] It is intended to serve a similar role
to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.[2]

Establishment and early

development
Abbreviation IPBES
In 2010 a resolution by the 65th session of the United Nations
Formation 2012
General Assembly urged the United Nations Environment
Programme to convene a plenary meeting to establish the Type Platform
IPBES.[3][4] In 2013 an initial conceptual framework was Legal status Active
adopted for the prospective IPBES plenary.[4] Headquarters Bonn, Germany

From 29 April to 4 May 2019, representatives of the 132 IPBES Head Chair of the
members met in Paris, France, to receive the IPBES's full Intergovernmental
report[5] and adopted a summary of it for policymakers. On 6 Science-Policy
Platform on
May 2019, the 40-page summary was released.[6][7]
Biodiversity and
Ecosystem
2020 report Services
On October 29, 2020 the organization issued a preliminary David Obura
report through Zenodo on its workshop, held virtually on 27– Website www.ipbes.net (http
31 July 2020, [11] that proposes a plan for international s://www.ipbes.net/)
cooperation to lower risks for pandemics. Lowering the Politics portal
frequency and severity of pandemics through implementation
of worldwide policies is the objective of the organization. An article on the report was published by
Medical News Today on November 7, 2020, that explicates information in the report.[12]

Nature’s contributions to people

IPBES proposed a new term for ecosystem services, calling them “Nature’s Contributions to
People” (NCPs).[10] This change was met with immediate objection from some scientists, who
worried that the new term would be confusing and that NCPs were not significantly different from
ecosystem services.[13]

2021 report with IPCC

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In June of 2021, IPBES and IPCC released a co-sponsored

workshop report on biodiversity and climate change. The
workshop produced a summary report covering outcomes,[14]
and a 250 page scientific outcome report.[15]

Awards

Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity in 2022

In October 2022, the IPBES and the IPCC shared the The IPBES Conceptual Framework
• Explanation of arrows (dotted
Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, because the two
arrows = important, but not the main
intergovernmental organisations "produce scientific
focus of IPBES):[8] [9] [10]
knowledge, alert society, and inform decision-makers to make • Arrow 1 = A society's achievement
better choices for combatting climate change and the loss of of good quality of life directly
biodiversity". [16] influence institutions and
governance systems and other
indirect drivers
See also • Arrow 2 = Institutions and
governance systems and other
Convention on Biological Diversity
indirect drivers are the root causes
Ecosystem service of the direct anthropogenic drivers
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that affect nature
System of Integrated Environmental and Economic • Arrow 3 = Direct drivers of change
Accounting are the immediate cause of changes
in nature
• Arrow 4 = Direct drivers of change
References affect the supply of nature's
contributions to people
1. "IPBES" (https://web.archive.org/web/20190627065419/htt
• Arrows 5, 6, and 7 = Institutions
ps://www.ipbes.net/). Archived from the original (https://ww
and governance systems and other
w.ipbes.net) on 27 June 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
indirect drivers affect the
2. "Biodiversity crisis is worse than climate change, experts interactions and balance between
say" (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/1201 nature and anthropogenic assets
20010357.htm). ScienceDaily. January 20, 2012. Retrieved • Arrow 8 = Nature's contributions to
September 11, 2019. people affect how people achieve a
3. Vadrot, Alice B. M.; Rankovic, Aleksandar; Lapeyre, good quality of life
Renaud; Aubert, Pierre-Marie; Laurans, Yann (1 March • Arrow 9 = Direct drivers of change
2018). "Why are social sciences and humanities needed in can have direct impacts on the
the works of IPBES? A systematic review of the literature" quality of life
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5898424). • Arrow 10 = Anthropogenic assets
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science directly affect the possibility of
Research. 31 (Suppl 1): 78–100. achieving a good quality of life
doi:10.1080/13511610.2018.1443799 (https://doi.org/10.10 through the provision of and access
80%2F13511610.2018.1443799). ISSN 1351-1610 (https:// to food, water, energy and livelihood
www.worldcat.org/issn/1351-1610). PMC 5898424 (https:// security; health, social relationships,
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5898424). equity, spirituality, and cultural
PMID 29706803 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2970680 identity
3).

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4. Duraiappah, Anantha Kumar; Rogers, Deborah (September

2011). "The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Services: opportunities for the social sciences".
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science
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doi:10.1080/13511610.2011.592052 (https://doi.org/10.108
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w.worldcat.org/issn/1351-1610). S2CID 143298612 (https://
api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143298612).
Nature’s Contributions to People
5. "Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem
(NCPs): Mapping of the 18 NCP
Services" (https://ipbes.net/global-assessment). IPBES.
reporting categories used in IPBES
2019. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
assessments by group
6. "Media Release: Nature's Dangerous Decline [10]
'Unprecedented'; Species Extinction Rates 'Accelerating' "
(https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assess
ment). IPBES. 5 May 2019. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
7. "Nature's decline 'unprecedented' in human history: 1
million species threatened with extinction" (https://web.archi
ve.org/web/20210712071159/https://www.ru.nl/english/new
s-agenda/news/vm/management/2019/nature-decline-unpr
ecedented-human-history-1/). Radboud University.
Archived from the original (https://www.ru.nl/english/news-a
genda/news/vm/management/2019/nature-decline-unprece
dented-human-history-1/) on 2021-07-12. Retrieved
2019-06-28.
8. IPBES (2013). Conceptual framework for the
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services (Report). Intergovernmental
Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services. IPBES-2/4.
9. Díaz, Sandra; Demissew, Sebsebe (June 2015). "The
IPBES Conceptual Framework — connecting nature and
people" (https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cosust.2014.11.002).
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 14: 1–16.
doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2014.11.002 (https://doi.org/10.1016%
2Fj.cosust.2014.11.002). hdl:11336/56765 (https://hdl.handl
e.net/11336%2F56765). ISSN 1877-3435 (https://www.worl
dcat.org/issn/1877-3435).
10. Díaz, Sandra; Pascual, Pascual (January 2018).
"Assessing nature's contributions to people". Science. 359
(6373): 270–272. Bibcode:2018Sci...359..270D (https://ui.a
dsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018Sci...359..270D).
doi:10.1126/science.aap8826 (https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fs
cience.aap8826). hdl:10289/12219 (https://hdl.handle.net/1
0289%2F12219). ISSN 0036-8075 (https://www.worldcat.or
g/issn/0036-8075). PMID 29348221 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nl
m.nih.gov/29348221). S2CID 13689076 (https://api.semanti
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11. Daszak, Peter; das Neves, C.; Amuasi, J.; Hayman, D.; Kuiken, T.; Roche, B.; Zambrana-
Torrelio, C.; Buss, P.; Dundarova, H.; Feferholtz, Y.; Foldvari, G.; Igbinosa, E.; Junglen, S.; Liu,
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g/record/4158500), Zenodo, October 29, 2020
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External links
ipbes.net (https://web.archive.org/web/20190627065419/https://www.ipbes.net/)
Summary for Policymakers, of the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services (http://ipbes.net/sites/default/files/2020-02/ipbes_global_assessment_report_summar
y_for_policymakers_en.pdf)
IPBES. (2019). Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. (E. S.
Brondizio, J. Settele, S. Díaz, & H. T. Ngo, Eds.). IPBES Secretariat. (https://doi.org/10.5281/ze
nodo.3831673)

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