IPBES: global collaboration on biodiversity and ecosystem services (original) (raw)
IPBES/7/INF/18, 2019
The review panel found that IPBES has been built on a solid foundation and will continue to offer a strong value proposition for stakeholders over the next decade. In a crowded landscape it has significant scientific credibility and a clearly defined and important niche as an intergovernmental platform working at the global science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services. It benefits from a wide sense of stakeholder ownership and several unique features that constitute major strengths. However, its positioning for impact has been impeded by an early focus on producing scientific assessments, with the inherently challenging science-policy interface dimension not yet having been fully addressed, insufficient focus on an explicit strategy guided by a clearly formulated vision and mission, and insufficient synergetic collaboration and partnerships - including with its four United Nations partner organizations (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)) and under several multilateral environmental agreements - despite the Platform’s early and laudable recognition of the importance of engaging multiple stakeholders in its work.
The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an international knowledge institution established through the United Nations system. Mandated to “strengthen the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services”, IPBES has a detailed set of intergovernmentally agreed functions, structures and processes that guide its rst Work Program (2014-2018). This working paper sets out these institutional arrangements, noting that broader understanding of the IPBES mechanisms may assist wider participation, accountability, and scholarly analysis.
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Díaz, Sandra, Settele, Josef, Brondízio, Eduardo, Ngo, Hien T., Guèze, Maximilien, Agard, John, Arneth, Almut, Balvanera, Patricia, Brauman, Kate, Butchart, Stuart, Chan, Kai, Garibaldi, Lucas, Ichii, Kazuhito, Liu, Jianguo, Subramanian, Suneetha Mazhenchery, Midgley, Guy, Miloslavich, Patricia, Molnár, Zsolt, Obura, David, Pfaff, Alexander, Polasky, Stephen, Purvis, Andy, Razzaque, Jona, Reyers, Belinda, Roy, Rinku, Shin, Yunne-Jai, Hamakers, Ingrid Visseren-, Willis, Katherine, Zayas, Cynthia (2019): Summary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services - unedited advance version. Bonn: IPBES, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2671522, URL: https://www.ipbes.net/sites/default/files/downloads/summary\_for\_policymakers\_ipbes\_global\_assessment.pdf The designations employed and the presentation of material on the maps used in the present report do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform ...