News Headline

Assessing nature's contributions to people

Source
Science Magazine

Publication Date
2018-01-19

A major challenge today and into the future is to maintain or enhance beneficial contributions of nature to a good quality of life for all people. This is among the key motivations of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a joint global effort by governments, academia, and civil society to assess and promote knowledge of Earth's biodiversity and ecosystems and their contribution to human societies in order to inform policy formulation.

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http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6373/270.full