United Nations Environment Programme-World Conservation M

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Name: United Nations Environment Programme-World Conservation M
Member Since: September 4th, 2007
Member Name: Unep.wcmc
Biography:

The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) is a collaboration between the United Nations Environment Programme, the world's foremost intergovernmental organization, and WCMC 2000, a UK-based charity.

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

To be an internationally recognised Centre of Excellence for the synthesis, analysis and dissemination of global biodiversity knowledge, providing authoritative, strategic and timely information for conventions, countries, organizations and companies to use in the development and implementation of their policies and decisions.

Our Mandate

The Centre has a mandate from the UNEP Governing Council to provide a range of biodiversity-related services to UNEP, the biodiversity-related conventions and their constituent party-states and other bodies in the non-governmental and private sectors (Decision GC 22/1/III).

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