Acknowledgements
We wish to express our appreciation to the German IPBES Coordination Office, located at the Project Management Agency of the German Aerospace Center in Bonn, Germany (DLR-PT) and funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for financial assistance to ensure open access to the articles of this special issue. We would like to thank Dr. Julia Kloos, Sapna Sidiqi and Uta von Witsch (German IPBES Coordination Office), and Dr. Ralph Wilhelm (DLR-PT) for their valuable assistance in the organisation of SSH expert meetings and in the process of analysing the outcomes of these meetings. We also thank Dr. Pauline Midgley (former Head of IPCC WGI TSU) for editing the editorial. Finally, we would like to thank the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), who supports the work of Dr Alice B.M. Vadrot with an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship (grant number: J-3704) and the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) for hosting Dr Vadrot.
ORCID
Alice Vadrot http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6043-9846