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Mother Earth: An expression used in a number of countries and regions to refer to the planet Earth and the entity that sustains all living things found in nature with which humans have an indivisible, interdependent physical and spiritual relationship.

Multidisciplinary Expert Panel: means a subsidiary body established by the Plenary which carries out the scientific and technical functions agreed upon by the Plenary, as articulated in the document on functions, operating principles and institutional arrangements of the Platform.

Nature: The natural world, with particular emphasis on biodiversity.

Nature’s benefits to people: All the benefits (and occasionally disbenefits or losses) that humanity obtains from Nature.

Plenary: means the Platform’s decision-making body comprising all the members of the Platform.

Policy tools: Instruments used by governance bodies at all scales to implement their policies. Environmental policies, for example, could be implemented through tools such as legislation, economic incentives or dis-incentives, including taxes and tax exemptions, or tradeable permits and fees.

Policy support tools and methodologies: approaches and techniques based on science and other knowledge systems that can inform and assist policy making and implementation at local, national, regional and international levels to protect and promote nature, nature’s benefits to people, and a good quality of life.

Policy instruments: structured activities by means of which decision-making authorities attempt to realize or achieve a decision to ensure support and effect or prevent social change in order to address an identified challenge. (Vedung, 2011).

Reports means the main deliverables of the Platform, including assessment reports, synthesis reports and their summaries for policymakers and technical summaries, technical papers and technical guidelines.

Scenarios: Plausible alternative future situations based on a particular set of assumptions. Scenarios are associated with lower certainty than projections, forecasts or predictions. For example, socio-economic scenarios are frequently based on storylines describing several alternative, plausible trajectories of population growth, economic growth and per capita consumption, among other things. These are commonly coupled with projections of impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services based on more quantitative models. The term “scenarios” is sometimes used to describe the outcomes of socio-economic scenarios coupled with models of impacts, owing to the high uncertainty associated with the socio-economic trajectories.

Scoping is the process by which the Platform will define the scope and objective of a deliverable and the information, human and financial requirements to achieve that objective.

Session of the Plenary means any ordinary or extraordinary session of the Platform’s Plenary.

Session of the Bureau means a series of meetings of the elected members of the Bureau of the Plenary and the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel co-chair(s).

Session of the Panel means a series of meetings of the elected members of the Platform’s Multidisciplinary Expert Panel and agreed observers (the Bureau of the Plenary and chairs of the subsidiary scientific bodies of multilateral environmental agreements, and the Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

Social-ecological system: A bio-geo-physical unit and its associated social actors and institutions. Social-ecological systems are complex and adaptive and are delimited by spatial or functional boundaries surrounding particular ecosystems and their specific context.

Synthesis reports synthesize and integrate materials contained within the assessment reports, are written in a
non-technical style suitable for policymakers and address a broad range of policy-relevant questions. They are composed of two sections: (a) summary for policymakers; (b) full report.

Summary for policymakers is a component of any report, providing a policy-relevant but not policy prescriptive summary of that report.

Supporting material consists of four categories:

(a) Intercultural and interscientific dialogue reports that are based on the material generated at the eco-regional level by discussions between members of academic, indigenous and social organizations and that take into account the different approaches, visions and knowledge systems that exist as well as the various views and approaches to sustainable development;

(b) Workshop proceedings and materials that are either commissioned or supported by the Platform;

(c) Software or databases that facilitate the use of the Platform’s reports;

(d) Guidance materials (guidance notes and guidance documents) that assist in the preparation of comprehensive and scientifically sound Platform reports and technical papers.

Systems of life: The complex, integrated interactions of living beings (including humans), such as the cultural attributes of communities, socio-economic conditions and biophysical variables.

Technical papers are based on the material contained in the assessment reports and are prepared on topics deemed important by the Plenary.

Technical summary is a longer and more technical summary of the material contained in the summary for policymakers.

Trend: The general direction in which the structure or dynamics of a system tends to change, even if individual observations vary.

Validation of the Platform’s reports is a process by which the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel and the Bureau provide their endorsement that the processes for the preparation of Platform reports have been duly followed.

Values: Those actions, processes, entities or objects that are worthy or important (sometimes values may also refer to moral principles).

Values, bequest: The satisfaction of preserving the option of future generations to enjoy nature’s benefits.

Values, existence: The satisfaction obtained from knowing that nature endures.

Values, instrumental: The direct and indirect contributions of nature’s benefits to the achievement of a good quality of life. These values are conceived in terms of preference satisfaction.

Values, intrinsic: The values inherent to nature, independent of human experience and evaluation, and therefore beyond the scope of anthropocentric valuation approaches.

Values, option: The potential ability to use some nature’s benefits in the future, although they are not currently used or the likelihood for their future use is low. It represents the willingness to preserve an option for the future enjoyment of nature’s benefits.

Values, relational: The values that contribute to desirable relationships, such as those among people and between people and nature, as in “Living in harmony with nature”.

Value systems: Set of values according to which people, societies and organizations regulate their behaviour. Value systems can be identified in both individuals and social groups and thus families, stakeholder groups and ethnic groups may be characterized by specific value systems.

Well-being: A perspective on a good life that comprises access to basic materials for a good life, freedom and choice, health and physical well-being, good social relations, security, peace of mind and spiritual experience.

1 IPBES/2/17, annex, decision IPBES-2/5, annex I, para. 9 (a).

2 IPBES/2/17, annex, decision IPBES-2/3, annex.

3 IPBES/3/INF/4.

4 The first IPBES programme of work 2014-2018 was agreed in December 2013 setting out a number of deliverables, including the development of guidance materials and the scoping and completion of thematic and regional assessments. This Guide is deliverable 2(a) of the first work programme of IPBES.

5 For full description of the IPBES Conceptual Framework see Díaz S., Demissew, S., Carabias, J., et al. 2015. The IPBES Conceptual Framework - Connecting nature and people. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. In Press.

6 See paragraph 7 and 9 of decision IPBES/1/3.

7 IPBES2/3.

8 IPBES/2/17.

9 Note: The Indigenous and Local Knowledge Task Force will provide recommendations on the use of confidence terms with indigenous and local knowledge.

10 www.cebc.bangor.ac.uk/Documents/CEBC%20Systematic%20Review%20Guidelines%20Version%202.0.pdf.

11 ILK will be contributed by experts working on ILK (e.g. in research institutions), and by ILK holders from indigenous people and local communities.

12 Items 3.1, paras. e and f; Item 3.2, para. c; Item 3.3, paras. e and f; and Item 3,4; in Decision IPBES-3/3 Procedures for the preparation of Platform deliverables, in the Report of the Plenary of IPBES on the work of its third session (IPBES/3/18) http://ipbes.net/images/documents/plenary/third/working/3_18/IPBES_3_18_EN.pdf.

13 Items 3.5 and 3.6 in Annex I to Decision IPBES-3/3 in IPBES 3/18 Procedures for the preparation of Platform deliverables, Report of the Plenary of IPBES on the work of its third session (pp 80-83) http://ipbes.net/images/documents/plenary/third/working/3_18/IPBES_3_18_EN.pdf.

14 The draft ILK-specific mechanism will further piloted and revised during 2016-2018.

15 The pollination pilot utilised nine criteria classified according to two categories: knowledge contribution (relevance; experience; co-production; focused on assessment topic; publications); and ability to contribute (ability to write; community endorsement; regional balance; gender balance).

16 In order for ILK holders and experts to assume roles as CLAs and LAs, they would need to be subject to the formal nomination process; additional Contributing Authors can be brought in without this formal nomination process.

17 IPBES-2/5 Deliverable 1(c).

18 http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/t_es/t_es_pande_conserve.htm.

19UNEP/IPBES.MI/2/9, _{19 Appendix1, paragraph 1(d)}

20 MA Methods Manual.

21 Adopted on 21 April 2012 by the second session of the Plenary meeting to determine modalities and institutional arrangements for an intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services in Panama City, 16-21 April 2012.

22 Approved in January 2015 as part of decision IPBES-3/1, and included in Annex 1 to that decision. Table 13.1 also comes from the same annex.

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