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European Biodiversity Clearing House Mechanism Integrated within BISE
Supporting the Convention on Biological Diversity
New report: "Biodiversity indicators and monitoring - Moving towards implementation".
| Release date | 17/09/2002 |
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| Contributor | janhei |
| Concerned URL | http://www.ecnc.org/file_handler/documents/original/view/55/2002biodiversityindicatorsandmonitoringpdf.pdf |
The topic of indicators and monitoring of biodiversity has received increasing attention in recent years at the global level, amongst others through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), but also at the European and national level. This publication, financially supported by UNEP's Regional Office for Europe, aims at providing a brief state of affairs of biodiversity indicators and monitoring at the various geographical levels. It illustrates that a lot has happened already and that it is time to implement most of what is available to date, so as to respond to the urgent policy requirements on assessing effectiveness of biodiversity policies around the globe. This is in line with the overall message from the CBD's 6th Conference of the Parties (COP6): it is time to move from policy dialogue to implementing what has been agreed. The publication also provides the outcome of the COP6 side event 'Towards implementing biodiversity indicators and monitoring in Europe: case studies from Europe'. The side event was organised jointly by the European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) in cooperation with BirdLife International on 10 April 2002. In Europe the work programme of the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy provides a forum for cooperation on biodiversity monitoring and indicators via the European Biodiversity Monitoring and Indicator Framework (EBMI-F), which is taking shape now. Closely linked to this framework, EEA has started an International Working Group on Biodiversity Monitoring and Indicators (IWG Bio-MIN), which supports EEA's development of a core set of biodiversity indicators and a monitoring network. Both platforms will bring together the key stakeholders in Europe and will advance coordinated development of indicators and monitoring in support of European and global policies.