Since the late 1970s the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) has delivered services that support implementation of international biodiversity-related agreements at global, regional and national levels. These services not only support the work of the agreement secretariats, but also of the advisory and governance bodies, and of governments party to the various agreements. The aim of this paper is to illustrate this work through examples of work we have undertaken.

The support that UNEP-WCMC provides is based on expert understanding of the agreements and how they work, resulting from many years of experience and close relationships with secretariats. There are two key elements to this, which are essential to UNEP-WCMC’s ability to deliver relevant products and services.

• Regular meetings with secretariat staff aid in planning the work that UNEP-WCMC can do to support conventions, and where possible this is translated into mutually agreed programmes of work.
• Participation in major meetings for those conventions with which UNEP-WCMC is regularly working, both to listen to and participate in relevant deliberations, and to liaise with other participants.
   

• 30 years supporting Multilateral Environmental Agreements(pdf, 1.2Mb)