PARIS, France, July 12, 2007 (ENS) - A new partnership to track the survival of Earth's diverse animals and plants was launched today by the United Nations Environment Programme with US$3.6 million in funding from the Global Environment Facility.
Monique Barbut is CEO of the Global Environment Facility. (Photo courtesy Earth Negotiations Bulletin, ENB)
"The biodiversity challenge is no less urgent a public issue than the climate change crisis," said Monique Barbut, CEO of the funding organization the Global Environment Facility, GEF. "This effort helps move biodiversity to the front burner to help ignite policy makers to take informed action."
UNEP and the GEF officially introduced the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership project today during a working group meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
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