Integrating biodiversity science for human well-being:
DIVERSITAS 2010-11 Annual Report DIVERSITAS has released its
2010-11 Annual Report summarising its key achievements for
biodiversity and ecosystem services science and policy.
DIVERSITAS (the Latin word for “diversity”) is an international
programme of biodiversity science. It was established to address
the complex scientific questions posed by the loss in
biodiversity and ecosystem services and to offer science based
solutions to this crisis; UNESCO is one of its founders. Current
collaboration with DIVERSITAS includes common preparatory work
for the first plenary of the International Platform for
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The establishment
of IPBES had been a key goal of DIVERSITAS that formally began
with an international conference on biological diversity hosted
by the French Government at UNESCO in Paris in 2005.The report
details the follow-up activities leading to its first meeting in
October, 2011, to begin the process of making