ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an empirical account of the policy-making process leading to the establishment of the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). It focuses on formal institutionalisation, including the dynamics, conflict lines and results of negotiations, at the following international meetings: the three multi-stakeholder meetings under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), two plenary sessions held to determine the functions and role of the IPBES, and several Conferences of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) during the period of 2008 to 2012. Prior to that, I will shed some light on events preceding the IPBES negotiations.1
