Operating procedures will be defined and the location of the IPBES secretariat decided at this meeting.
IPBES-1 will be the first meeting of Members of the Platform's plenary, with observers.
Recently, governments agreed to create the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Even before IPBES can receive formal requests, expectations for the Platform are high.
The meeting allowed to gather information and views towards a coherent position of the scientific community in the IPBES process.
The report details the follow-up activities leading to its first meeting in October, 2011, to begin the process of making IPBES operational.
Current collaboration with DIVERSITAS includes common preparatory work for the first plenary of the International Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
The IPBES Secretariat should also be fully staffed and operational by the end of IPBES-2, provisionally scheduled for the end of 2013.
The main objective of IPBES is to promote awareness among political decision-makers and the general public of the disastrous consequences of biodiversity loss.
If IPBES is able to deliver on its intentions, it could be a good thing for both the US and business, especially for businesses operating internationally.
FORBES: US getting serious about international biodiversity policy
The first session of the IPBES plenary meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on 3-7 October 2011, has made important steps forward in establishing and operationalizing the platform.
During the first session of the IPBES plenary meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on 3-7 October 2011, delegates made considerable progress in determining the platform's modalities and institutional arrangements.
Co-sponsored by UNESCO, IPBES is an interface between the scientific community and policy makers that aims to build capacity for and strengthen the use of science in policy making.
The Organization has been deeply engaged also with the creation of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a vital platform for action to protect biodiversity.
An ambitious agenda has been set by the meeting, paving the way for the second meeting of the platform (IPBES-2), where IPBES's forward-looking work programme is expected to be agreed.
The meeting also took this opportunity to elect an international group of renowned experts, the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP), which will ensure the scientific credibility and independence of the IPBES work.
In light of its mandate in the area of culture, UNESCO will ensure that evaluations under IPBES also take into account cultural services and the influence of human factors on biodiversity.
There was no on-going global mechanism recognized by both the scientific and policy communities to gather, synthesize and analyse information on biodiversity for decision making until IPBES was established in April 2012.
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.
The Conference welcomed the establishment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) earlier this year and recognized the potential contribution it could make to enhance the effectiveness of the Convention.
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), held in Bonn, Germany this week.
This meeting saw the participation of a substantial number of scientific organizations, programmes and networks active in the field of biodiversity science and taking an interest in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is being established with the broad intention of ensuring that the best available science is made available to Governments and other stakeholders to facilitate informed decisions and policies.
This conference laid the foundations for the negotiations that led to the creation of IPBES. A decisive step was taken in Busan (South Korea) in June 2010, when the governments of 75 countries approved the creation of this platform.
Throughout the IYB steady progress was made towards the establishment of an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on the model of the IPCC, pivotal in assessing the science and raising global awareness of climate change.
For the US, playing a leading role in IPBES as advocated in this report may be a critical step towards the long overdue US ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity which is the key platform for international biodiversity policy.
FORBES: US getting serious about international biodiversity policy
They each have extensive experience administering programmes of this scope, and a range of on-going joint collaborations demonstrate the potential and effectiveness of such collective support that can be offered by the UN organizations to the provision of the IPBES Secretariat.
The Bonn meeting will aim to agree on the remaining rules of procedures for the platform, elect Bureau and Multidisciplinary Expert Panel members, and agree on the next steps by which the IPBES work programme can become operational as soon as possible.
UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are acting as the interim Secretariat of IPBES until such time a permanent secretariat is set up in Bonn.
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