Representatives from 90 countries have joined together to approve the formation of an Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) by the UN General Assembly. IPBES will carry out high-quality peer reviews of the science on biodiversity and ecosystems to provide gold standard reports to governments and will outline policy options and responses making sense of reports and assessments conducted by United Nations bodies, research centers, universities, and others as they relate to biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
New International Coalition for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
From the AAAS Policy Alert:
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