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Ecosystem Assessment
The Ecosystem Assessment Programme incorporates research, synthesis, facilitation and capacity-support to improve information and knowledge regarding biodiversity and ecosystems, and its availability to and use by decision-makers. Key technical areas within the Programme include work on biodiversity indicators and assessments, ecosystem services and their values for people, and support to policy processes at national, regional and global scales.
The Ecosystem assessment Programme is currently, and has been involved with several large, international projects. Notable ones are the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership, UK National Ecosystem Assessment, and the Performance Review and Assessment of Implementation System.
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Biodiversity Indicators
Biodiversity indicators are essential tools for monitoring, assessment and decision-making.
MoreEcosystem Services & Assessment
UNEP-WCMC is one of the lead organisations examining the importance of ecosystem services to human well-being, the role of biodiversity in underpinning ecosystem services, and exploring ways to bring this more clearly to the attention of policy makers such as through ecosystem assessment.
MoreRegional & National Capacity Support
We provide training, guidance materials and technical support to national and regional governments and organisations, assisting them in producing ecosystem assessments and indicators.
MoreLand & Livelihoods
Two-thirds of the world’s productive land has already been brought into use to improve human well-being which, in turn, has caused high levels of biodiversity loss. The poor are directly dependent on ecosystem services and, by turn, increased land degradation threatens biodiversity. Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity will not be achieved without de-coupling poverty reduction / improvement of human well-being from degradation of land and biodiversity.
MoreBiodiversity & Poverty Reduction
UNEP - WCMC is working with the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED) to support efforts at national, regional and international level to ensure that biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction goals reinforce each other and achieve a win-win-situation.
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