ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the six Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) narratives: Better Politics, Better Policies, scientific evidence and usable knowledge, convince policy-makers to act, mainstreaming biodiversity, and valuing biodiversity. The conflicts over the role of the IPBES in the institutional setting of international biodiversity politics were manifold, involved different actors and spanned several thematic issues. The United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) role was an important point of discussion regarding the framework within which IPBES would operate. The explicit expectation was that the IPBES would not only provide policy-relevant knowledge, but also strengthen the biodiversity governance system and build synergies between conventions. The idea that a common knowledge base could increase the efficiency of policy-making processes at the international scale also applies to the national scale, or the implementation of the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP).
