Brazilian assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services: summary for policy makers

Ecology. The biodiversity and ecosystem services science-policy interface.

I n recognition of our inability to halt damaging ecosystem change (1– 4), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was asked in December 2010 to convene a meeting " to determine modalities and institutional arrangements " of a new assessment body, akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to track causes and consequences of anthropogenic ecosystem change (5). The " b...

BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: ARGUMENTS FOR OUR FUTURE ENVIRONMENT Final publishable summary

Green Growth and Developing Countries A Summary for Policy Makers

[The intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES)].

Filling an identified gap, the establishment of an international mechanism for science/policy and expert/decision maker interface, in the field of biodiversity does not go so smoothly. This new institution is the result of a relatively long and arduous international negotiations process, the starting point having been an idea launched in Paris in 2005 at an international conference on biodivers...

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Agroecosystems

Glossary Agroecology The application of ecological concepts and principles to the design and management of sustainable agroecosystems. Agroecosystems Agricultural ecosystems including biophysical and human components and their interactions. Biodiversity The variation of life in all forms from genes, to species, to communities, to whole ecosystems. Ecosystem service providers Organisms, guilds, ...