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(UK), a UK-based charity. UNEP-WCMC is UNEP’s specialist biodiversity assessment arm, and the Centre for UNEP’s collaboration with WCMC 2000.

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.
[Decision GC.22/1/III]