The consultative process towards an IMoSEB (International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity) was a broad, multidisciplinary exploratory process from 2005 to 2008 that involved a large number of stakeholders and had an important political and media audience. Its aim was the creation of a true value-added process by fully taking into account existing and current initiatives and mechanisms .
Initiated at the International Conference "Biodiviersity: Science and Governance" in January 2005, it ended in November 2007 with the final meeting of its International Steering Committee (ISC). IMoSEB recommendations and results were then brought at a higher political scale and congrued with the Millennium ecosystem assessment follow up initiative to create the IPBES initiative, led by UNEP. IPBES first meeting took place in November 2008 in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
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