Germany has set up a national focus for IPBES, the German science-policy platform of biodiversity research (NEFO). It hosted an international expert workshop on tools and methodologies for IPBES in December 2011 - scoping paper and other materials on the website.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith