Expertise for policy-relevant knowledge. IPBES’s epistemic infrastructure and guidance to make environmental assessments

Figures & data

Figure 1. Comparing an IPBES assessment and aliterature review in the E-learning tool (Module 2, Lesson 1, p.14).

Figure 2. IPBES’s conceptual framework (Source: IPBES 2023b [updated from Díaz etal. 2015]).

Figure 3. Model for assessing the certainty level of the knowledge (Source: IPBES assessment guide, p.30).

Figure 4. Instructions for how to present and communicate the assessment. The figure is acompilation of the exact text from interactive text boxes with general writing tips in the E-learning tool (Module 2, Lesson 3, p.29).

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Data availability statement

Publicly available datasets were analysed in this study. The analysis is based on published and accessible work by the IPBES, Full references to these documents (including links to them) are given in the list of references.