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In 5 pages, the writer discusses how the United Nations deals with biodiversity, the issues biodiversity programs address, how biodiversity operates, where biodiversity operates, and its strategies and action plan. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of global conservation. A major international assessment pointed to new approaches in strategies for conserving biodiversity. An encouraging trend in international environmental policymaking in
recent years has been the emergence of new institutions for bringing science to bear on critical policy issues such as strategies for conserving biodiversity (Reid 16).
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was drafted without the benefit of an international scientific assessment. The CBD encourages governments to take certain actions but does not require
them to achieve particular goals or funding levels. The lack of scientific input was not a serious impediment to its formulation and adoption, however. A common understanding of
the underlying scientific issues will become much more important as governments develop strategies for conserving biodiversity, use it sustainably and establish monitoring programs, networks of protected areas and training programs
(Reid 16). The Global Biodiversity Assessment (GBA) is one valuable resource in this area. The GBA, which was commissioned by the United
Nations Environment Programme to assist governments in implementing the CBD, is an independent analysis of the state of scientific knowledge about biodiversity. More than 400 experts from 50 countries
participated in preparing the report (Reid 16). Five hundred others were involved in its review (Reid 16). It has become widely accepted as state of the art in
respect to the science of biodiversity (Reid 16). GBA was for the most part unofficial because governments neither requested the assessment not did they appoint
the scientists who participated in it. This resulted in GBA being less subject to political manipulation than a purely official report would have been. Nevertheless, GBA has fairly
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