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Assessing the state of biodiversity and the benefits nature provides to people is one of the functions of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), which meets in Malaysia this week. To achieve this goal, the platform must synthesise large volumes of data from around the globe and together with other organizations, UNEP-WCMC is facilitating this process.
The capacity of decision makers in West Africa to assess and understand the impacts of climate change and factor this knowledge into national policies and protected area management has been enhanced by a Global Environment Facility (GEF) project managed by UNEP-WCMC.
Last week, from 25-27 January, UNEP-WCMC hosted this year’s meeting of the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership. Hilary Allison, Head of UNEP-WCMC’s Ecosystem Assessment Programme reflects on the meeting and the importance of developing indicators that can be used to report on multiple global conventions.
UNEP-WCMC's strategic partnership with its parent organisation has been reaffirmed today, as two senior UNEP staff join our Management Team. Neville Ash has been appointed to the position of Director of UNEP-WCMC, and Corli Pretorius as Deputy Director. Both will join the Centre in April.
First Nations fisheries’ catch could decline by as much as 49 per cent by 2050, estimates a new University of British Columbia (UBC) study led by Lauren Weatherdon, Programme Officer at UNEP-WCMC that examined the threat of climate change to the food security and economies of First Nations along coastal British Columbia, Canada.
From 1 to 8 December, members of the UNEP-WCMC Climate Change and Biodiversity Programme participated in several events on the margins of the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP21) in Paris, France.
