× Information on this section of ECOLEX comes from the InforMEA Portal which compiled information from MEA Secretariats with the support of the European Union. The accuracy of the information displayed is the responsibility of the originating data source. In case of discrepancy the information as displayed on the respective MEA website prevails. Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Document type Decision Reference number 27/4 Date Nov 1, 2016 SourceUNEP, InforMEA Status Active Meeting 27th Session of UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum Website www.informea.org Abstract The Governing Council, Recalling General Assembly Resolution 65/162 of 20 December 2010, Also recalling its decision 26/4 of 24 February 2011, by which it requested the Executive Director, in cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Development Programme to convene a plenary meeting to determine modalities and institutional arrangements for the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services and to continue to facilitate any ensuing process to implement the platform until its secretariat was established, Further recalling that in decision 26/4 it invited the Executive Director to submit an offer of interest, to be considered along with other offers, subject to the procedures agreed during the above-mentioned plenary meeting, signifying the interest of the United Nations Environment Programme in hosting or otherwise supporting the secretariat of the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services, Noting that the General Assembly, in its resolution 67/212 of 21 December 2012, welcomed the establishment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and its potential benefit to Governments, invited the early commencement of its work, in order to provide the best available policy-relevant information on biodiversity to assist decision makers, and encouraged Member States that had not yet done so to become members of the Platform, Having considered the report of the Executive Director,1 1. Welcomes the establishment, in April 2012, of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services; 2. Welcomes also the outcome of the first session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, held in Bonn from 21 to 26 January 2013, and takes note of the request of the Plenary of the Platform to the United Nations Environment Programme that it provide the Platform’s secretariat, which will be solely accountable to the Platform Plenary on policy and programmatic matters and administrative arrangements in accordance with the rules of the United Nations Environment Programme; 3. Welcomes the significant progress on modalities of the platform, including efforts to achieve the early commencement of the work of the platform made at the first session of the Platform Plenary; 4. Authorizes the Executive Director, within available resources, to provide the secretariat and administrative arrangements in responding to the decision adopted by the Platform Plenary at its