BISE and baseline: New tools to combat biodiversity loss in Europe

The European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA), at the opening of the Green Week Conference in Brussels on 1 June 2010, unveiled two new tools to combat biodiversity loss: BISE (the Biodiversity Information System for Europe) and 'Biodiversity baseline'. BISE is a web portal centralising information about European biodiversity in a single location. The baseline offers a comprehensive snapshot of the current state of biodiversity and will be used to monitor progress in the renewed efforts to halt biodiversity loss.

European Commission: DG Environment: Green Week website http://ec.europa.eu/environment/greenweek/home.html

Website: Biodiversity Information System for Europe http://www.biodiversity.europa.eu/

European Environment Agency: Publications: EU 2010 biodiversity baseline http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eu-2010-biodiversity-baseline

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