Biodiversity, ecosystem services, land degradation: IPBES launching 5 major assessments

(Terry Collins Assoc) Five major reports have been prepared over the last three years by more than 550 leading experts from 100 countries.Four of these reports are authoritative, up-to-date assessments of the state and forecasts of biodiversity and nature's services to people in four world regions: the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Africa, and Europe and Central Asia. A fifth report describes the state and forecasts of land degradation and restoration at both regional and global levels.

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