Notes

Chapter 10 by Claudio Chiarolla and Annalisa Savaresi provides an overview of the most important international legal instruments tailored for the recognition and protection of indigenous and local knowledge systems in global environmental governance, including the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and relevant human rights instruments. It considers key challenges involved in embracing indigenous and local knowledge systems under IPBES, alongside other knowledge systems, from the institutional, legal, scientific and practical standpoints. The process used to select the scientific experts is analyzed by Fanny

Duperray, Marie Hrabanski andMohamed Oubenal in chapter 11, and presents features of the first IPBES assessment. The authors put forward explanatory elements to clarify why the pollination theme has been chosen while showing that pollination helps to consolidate the recognition of IPBES as a forum for coordination between several regime complexes, and to strengthen its links with CBD. Through a well-structured empirical framework, the authors also question different dimensions of the recruitment process and show how IPBES framed the long-standing socio-technical controversy on the role of pesticides in the decline of pollinators, notably regarding conflicts of interest that this controversy has given expression to within IPBES. Finally, Philippe Le Prestre concludes the book by highlighting the main

results, and then offers some reflections on IPBES challenges as a scientific governance tool for the biodiversity regime complex and finally on the impact of IPBES on policy making at different levels.