LAB helps develop City Biodiversity Index (CBI)

From 10 to 12 February 2009 in Singapore co-organisers, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD) and Singapore National Parks, held the First Expert Workshop on the development of a City Biodiversity Index (CBI). Andre Mader of the LAB Project Team was invited to join 16 other international experts on urban biodiversity and indicator development in contributing to the development of this product. The CBI is a set of biodiversity indictors being developed specifically for cities. Its purpose is to provide their local governments with an internationally accredited and recognised system for measuring the status of their biodiversity and biodiversity conservation efforts, and changes over time. The CBI will be officially taken up by the SCBD and tested by volunteer cities including selected LAB cities.

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CBD website: http://www.cbd.int/authorities/Gettinginvolved/cbi.shtml and http://www.cbd.int/authorities/photos.shtml