Rik Leemans on IPBES, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

We recently sat down with Rik Leemans, chair of the Earth System Science Partnership to find out more about the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). We discussed the importance of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services as the foundation issue of this new IPCC-like assessment platform, as well as the role and importance of the assessment in the current scientific climate.