ICLEI Council unanimously adopts global LAB Biodiversity Programme

At the ICLEI World Congress, held in June 2009 in Edmonton, a motion was adopted by the ICLEI Council that ICLEI would adopt the Local Action for Biodiversity (LAB) Programme as a global ICLEI Programme.

This means that the LAB Programme will be expanded to go beyond the 21-City Project.Other work streams that will be included in the work of this global initiative include:

• A Global Network of committed local governments
• LAB Progress Groups
• Tools, Research & Capacity Building
• Technical Services and Consultancy
• Promotion & Partnership
• Advocacy & Representation

Quality and performance criteria for all biodiversity projects and activities at the local level will be developed in cooperation with other global ICLEI and IUCN Programmes.

An outline of this new global initiative can be downloaded here.