Policies
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Meet our staff
About Us
The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) is a collaboration between the United Nations Environment Programme, the world's foremost intergovernmental environmental organization, and WCMC, a UK-based charity. UNEP-WCMC is UNEP’s specialist biodiversity assessment arm, and the Centre for UNEP’s collaboration with WCMC.
Our Vision
A world where biodiversity counts
Our Mission
To evaluate and highlight the many values of biodiversity and put authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making
Our Goal
The Centre’s goal is to provide authoritative, relevant and timely information for countries, MEAs, organizations and companies to use in the development and implementation of their policies and decisions. To help achieve this we aim to be an internationally recognized Centre of Excellence and the partner of choice for the expert synthesis, analysis and dissemination of knowledge about global biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Our Mandate
The international community has acknowledged the role of UNEP-WCMC and has asked us to carry out many critical global functions. In particular, UNEP’s Governing Council has recognised the Centre as UNEP’s specialist biodiversity and assessment arm providing a range of biodiversity-related services to UNEP, governments, Multilateral Environmental Agreements and their constituent party states, and other bodies in the NGO and private sectors.
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Staff List
The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre work in close collaboration with the UK not-for-profit organisation known as ‘WCMC’ and it is this institution which hires most of the staff at the Centre. WCMC employs a technical team of around 60 scientists and technicians, most of whom are educated to Masters or Doctorate level, along with a relatively small, but high-quality administrative team.
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Corporate Engagement
UNEP-WCMC strives to enhance awareness of the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services to company's operations. Our main focus is to develop guidance and analysis to demystify biodiversity and ecosystem services. This allows it to be integrated as part of normal business practices by streamlining biodiversity information, making it more accessible and relevant to the business community.
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Given its position as an internationally recognised environmental organisation, UNEP-WCMC strives to ensure the sustainability of its own activities and show its commitment to environmental issues both internally and externally. For this reason, the Centre has an Environmental Committee made up of staff members from each programme who volunteer their time to identify and, where possible, address any areas that are unsustainable.
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UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre,
219 Huntingdon Road,
Cambridge,
CB3 0DL.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 277314
Fax: +44 (0)1223 277136
Visiting the Centre
Directions to the Centre by bicycle, car, train, coach, plane or bus.
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre,
219 Huntingdon Road,
Cambridge,
CB3 0DL
Tel: +44 (0)1223 277314
Fax: +44 (0)1223 277136
UNEP-WCMC is 1.6 miles north-west of Cambridge city centre, 2 miles from the bus station and 3 miles from the train station.
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UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre is situated just 2 miles outside central Cambridge. The current Centre building, officially opened in 1993, was specially designed to fit in with its rural surroundings and constructed mainly from reclaimed materials - receiving the Green Award for Office of the Year in 1995.
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“If we are to make our future on this planet sustainable, a strong science-policy interface is critical. It is here that UNEP-WCMC is vital.”
Achim Steiner,
UNEP Executive Director and UN Under-Secretary-General
