 Such a restricted interpretation can mean that the maintenance of options provided by biodiversity fails to enter into assessments. For example, Brauman et al. (2020) set out to assess the current global status of nature’s contributions to people, but explicitly chose not to assess maintenance of options—arguing that this is a contribution to well-being only through its support of the well-being obtained from other contributions of nature. In contrast, the IPBES global assessment (IPBES 2019) did assess global status of maintenance of options, noting that, even when considering other specific nature contributions, such as medicinal resources, biodiversity’s maintenance of options is a current benefit in promising possible future medicinal benefits (see also “Phylogenetic diversity and IPBES” in Other Internet Resources).