We develop world-leading digital products for gathering, managing and interpreting decision-grade biodiversity data and indicators. With our user-driven approach, we strengthen biodiversity knowledge products to provide insight for decision-makers.
We encourage and enable transformative use of open-access digital tools on biodiversity to amplify and accelerate progress towards national and global targets for nature. This includes advancing state-of-the-art tools such as UN Biodiversity Lab to understand progress, commitments and actions, and supporting the translation of science into policy-relevant outputs that are aligned with UNEP’s Programme of Work and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
A new progress tracker for freshwater action has been launched by Systems Change Lab, a platform that monitors critical shifts needed to protect people and the planet, assessing progress toward international targets and identifying opportunities to deliver on systemic approaches to tackling the world’s sustainability challenges. Fresh water sustains life across Earth. Freshwater ecosystems support…
The UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and Google are seeking to harness previously untapped data to help the plants and animals most threatened by global wildlife trade. New funding from Google.org’s $20 million AI for Science Fund has been awarded to support UNEP-WCMC in its cutting-edge use of artificial intelligence for applied scientific research. The overexploitation of animals and plants is a major threat driving species to extinction. In recognition of this, the Convention on International Trade in…
Capturing key information about our oceans is the foundation for protecting them
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