Current collaboration with DIVERSITAS includes common preparatory work for the first plenary of the International Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

The report covers all DIVERSITAS activities including its work on the interface between science and policy making, developing cross-cutting networks, the Earth System Science Partnership, etc.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

The Planet Under Pressure conference is organized by Diversitas, the International Programme of Biodiversity Science, the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, and the World Climate Research Programme.

UNESCO: Planet under pressure: taking stock of scientific data

The establishment of IPBES had been a key goal of DIVERSITAS that formally began with an international conference on biological diversity hosted by the French Government at UNESCO in Paris in 2005.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

One such activity was the experts meeting hosted by UNESCO on 10 June 2011 to provide input for the first plenary on institutional arrangements and modalities of IPBES, and to focus, in particular, on possible elements for the generation of knowledge function of IPBES. There are many important details to be decided in Nairobi and DIVERSITAS members, notably UNESCO, will continue to be actively involved.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences