Member Type Non Governmental Organization
UNEP- World Conservation Monitoring Centre
The UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) is a centre of excellence in biodiversity knowledge. We operate as a collaboration between UNEP and WCMC, a UK-registered charity. Together, we are confronting the global crisis facing nature.
We do this through our unique position ensuring science, knowledge and insights shape global and national policy, and by collaborating with partners around the world to build capacity and create innovative solutions to environmental challenges. We use our position as respected custodians of powerful and trusted environmental data to create positive impact for people and nature.
We work with partners to ensure the use of best-available data, knowledge and digital innovation for effective policy and approaches for the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of nature. We mobilise data by developing and curating authoritative digital repositories such as Ocean+, which hosts global marine biodiversity datasets that support decision-making at all levels. We also host Protected Planet®, the most comprehensive global database on terrestrial and marine protected areas. Protected Planet is a joint product of IUCN and UNEP and presents the latest official statistics for Protected and Conserved Areas.
We support the delivery of ocean-related Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Decades on Ecosystem Restoration and on Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, and the implementation of various Multilateral Environmental Agreements including the Ramsar Convention, Regional Seas Conventions and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
Related websites:
Ocean+
Protected Planet Marine Protected Areas
Coral Reef Funding Landscape
Global Marine Restoration
Governing Coastal Resources - Implications for a Sustainable Blue Economy
- UNEP- World Conservation Monitoring Centre Report (GM 23)
- UNEP-WCMC Report to the 24th GM
- UNEP-WCMC Report to the 21st GM
- UNEP WCMC Report to the 25th ICRI General Meeting
- UNEP-WCMC Report to the 26th General Meeting
- UNEP WCMC report to the 31st ICRI General Meeting
- UNEP-WCMC report to the 33rd ICRI General Meeting
- UNEP- World Conservation Monitoring Centre report to the 37th ICRI General Meeting
- Reef Futures Collaboration: Key findings
- Looking back at three productive days of events by the GCRMN
- New UN report warns of ‘devastating’ effects from ongoing destruction of mangrove forests
- Protection of seagrasses key to building resilience to climate change, disasters – new UN report
- Best Practice Guidelines for Mangrove Restoration
- Resolution on Coral Disease
- Presentation of the Ad Hoc Committee on Coral Disease (GM24)
- In the front line: shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs
- Disease in Tropical Coral Reef Ecosystems: ICRI Key Messages on Coral Disease
- Analysis of International Funding for the Sustainable Management of Coral Reefs and Associated Coastal Ecosystems
- Seamounts, deep-sea corals and fisheries
Last Updated: 20 October 2023