IPBES: New Science-Policy Platform Takes Big Steps for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Bonn, 28 January 2013 - A new international science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystems, set up to assist governments and citizens to better understand the state, trends and challenges facing the natural world and humanity in the 21st century, has today put in place many of the administrative and staffing structures needed to implement its important work.

Over 500 delegates, including from most of the 105 Member States of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), attended the first plenary meeting of the platform (IPBES-1), in Bonn, Germany.

• Read the full UNEP Press Release
• Closing Joint Statement from the Six Biodiversity-Related Conventions | Opening Joint Statement from the Six Biodiversity-Related Conventions
• Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) coverage of the meeting