Díaz, Sandra and Demissew, Sebsebe and Nagendra, Harini
(2015)
The IPBES conceptual framework — connecting nature and people.
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 14.
pp. 1-16.
Abstract
The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Services (IPBES) was established in
2012 as an independent intergovernmental body open
to all member countries of the United Nations, with the
goal of ‘strengthening 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’ (http://www.
ipbes.net). Developed in the wake of other international
assessments, specifically the Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), IPBES was designed to proactively
develop assessments matched to policy needs, and to
support capacity building across scales and topics [1,2].
To achieve this objective, IPBES has four intercon-
nected functions: to catalyse the generation of new
knowledge; to produce assessments of existing knowledge; to support policy formulation and implementation;
and to build capacities relevant to achieving its goal. The
first public product of IPBES was a conceptual frame-
work to underpin all these functions, to structure the
syntheses that will inform policy, and to improve com-
parability across various assessments carried out at different spatial scales, on different themes, and in different
regions.
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