Abstract

Using the experience from past assessments of global biodiversity and ecosystem services change as well as from the IPCC, this paper asks what the policy-oriented charges in the Busan outcome imply for the science of the assessment process. Although previous global-change assessments required policy relevance, the authors argue that the policy orientation and support role of IPBES goes further. For IPBES to provide the policy support envisaged in the Busan outcome, it requires an approach that differs from those adopted in previous assessments.