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In March 2008, a concept note was prepared by UNEP detailing the needs and rationale for an intergovernmental multi-stakeholder platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services, based on a request from the international science committee of the International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity process and the partners of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment follow up strategy. The document was made available as an information document to the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity at its ninth meeting, held in May 2008. Subsequently, an open peer review process was undertaken electronically for six weeks. In total, 588 comments were received from 30 countries and 27 organizations. The concept note was revised accordingly for consideration at the first ad hoc intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder meeting on an intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services, held in Putrajaya, Malaysia from 10 to 12 November 2008.
At the first ad-hoc intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder meeting on an Intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services, held in Putrajaya, Malaysia from 10 to 12 November 2008, the Chair recommended that a gap analysis on existing science-policy interfaces should be undertaken. A preliminary report was made available to the twenty-fifth session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum, held in Nairobi in February 2009. From March to June 2009, Governments and organizations were invited to provide comments on the preliminary gap. In total, 788 comments from 54 respondents (out of which 21 from Governments) were received, which have been incorporated into the full gap analysis report for consideration at the second ad hoc intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder meeting on an intergovernmental science-policy interface on biodiversity and ecosystem services, held in Nairobi from 5 to 9 October 2009.
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