Biodiversity @ UNITAR

Maintaining the earth’s biodiversity is essential for the natural environment to deliver goods and services on which humanity thrives. It is also a key dimension of poverty alleviation. Several UNITAR Programmes and Offices are engaged in supporting governments, organizations, and stakeholders in developing capacity to respond to the global biodiversity challenge. Activities are linked and seek to make a contribution to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), signed at the Rio Summit in 1992. In 2007, UNITAR signed a Memorandum with the Secretariat of the CBD with the goal to enhance UNITAR’s contribution to the implementation of the Convention. In 2006, the Institute also became a member of the Heads of Agencies Task Force on the 2010 Biodiversity Target.