SummaryThe Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has played an important role in assessing knowledge and raising awareness of biodiversity loss, and it is now also mandated to assess and support processes of transformative change. This perspective paper argues that the transformative change assessment entails key elements of transformative agency, which, along with the performative role of IPBES, makes it relevant to re-conceptualize the organization as a transformative agent. This new role will change IPBES and brings attention to risks related to undermining the credibility, relevance and legitimacy of IPBES, but it also brings opportunities for innovations that may strengthen the organization, including furthering public reasoning, acknowledging ambiguities and disagreements, ensuring scientific autonomy and balancing governmental power in the organization. As IPBES takes on the fundamental challenge of transformative change, critical scrutiny and democratic debate regarding its function as a political actor are more important than ever.

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IPBES 作为变革推动者：机遇与风险

摘要生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台 (IPBES) 在评估知识和提高对生物多样性丧失的认识方面发挥了重要作用，现在还受命评估和支持变革进程。这篇观点论文认为，变革评估需要变革机构的关键要素，这与 IPBES 的执行作用一起，使得将组织重新概念化为变革机构具有相关性。这一新角色将改变 IPBES，并引起人们对与破坏 IPBES 的可信度、相关性和合法性有关的风险的关注，但它也带来了可能加强该组织的创新机会，包括进一步公开推理、承认歧义和分歧，确保科学自主并平衡组织中的政府权力。随着 IPBES 应对转型变革的根本挑战，对其作为政治参与者的职能进行批判性审查和民主辩论比以往任何时候都更加重要。