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18 April 2023United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre
An Introduction to UNEP-WCMC:
our work and our data issues
Jon HuttonJanuary 4th 2011
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UNEP-WCMC
UNEP-WCMC is UNEP’s Specialist Biodiversity Assessment Centre
We are a flexible hybrid… We deliver policy relevant
analysis to support decision-making
We have strong convening and facilitating power and use this to create strategic partnerships
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A 30 year history
A complex, but illustrious past Started by IUCN Then governed by IUCN, UNEP & WWF Became an ‘integral part of UNEP’ in
2000 Responsible for much of the conservation
infrastructure we are familiar with..........
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UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
IUCN Red List
Least ConcernNear ThreatenedVulnerableEndangeredCritically EndangeredExtinct in the wildExtinct
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Living Planet Index
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UNEP-WCMC is part of
UNEP
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Mandates
The UNEP Governing Council adopted WCMC as UNEP’s “Specialist Biodiversity Information and Assessment Centre” (Decision GC 22/1/III).
Other mandates derive from the Conferences of the Parties of the biodiversity-related conventions; the World Parks Congress…. and elsewhere…
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Our Mission…
To evaluate and highlight the many values of biodiversity and put
authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making
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Capacity
We have over 60 scientists working with us
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UNEP-WCMC is well perceived by Government and Partners
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We facilitate small global processes...
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We participate in major global initatives...
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Home to Pavan Sukhdev & TEEB
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CBD 2010 Target & MDGs
Indicators for Target 7.B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
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Part of the Steering Committee of GEO-BON
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To build on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)o The need for independent scientific expertise o The need for more capacityo The need for improved communication Loosely based on the perceived success of IPCC raising
the political profile of climate change...
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Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
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We support the MEAs
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CITES Species Database
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CITES Trade Database
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Significant Trade Database
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EU Trade Regulation
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Guidance on the sourcing of Exotic Leather
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We are involved in a number of productive partnerships...
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In partnership with IUCN :Protected Planet
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In Partnership with GBIF
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We respond quickly to emerging issues...
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A world where biodiversity counts
http://wcmcwaa1.miniserver.com/~unepwcmc/
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An analysis of the barriers to the sharing of biodiversity data, with
recommendations of feasible measures to lower these
by Martin JenkinsWorking draft of October 2010
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Understanding information and those producing it...
Information in its widest sense exists in different forms - as words, numbers, symbols, images or artefacts – and can be stored in different places: It is held by many different kinds of people in different capacities and for different purposes which may include:
personal interestresearch – often leading to publicationresource managementbecause of some mandate (e.g. through CITES, FAO)as a public good
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Information may be available to:
the person(s) who originated or collected it/ & their immediate colleagues or peers
more widely within a particular organisation or institution
those outside the holding institution or organisation under restrictions (license agreements, fees, conditions of use etc.)
freely, to anybody
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The extent to which it is actually accessible to anyone other than its originator depends on:
whether a potential user knows that it actually exists
whether it is in a form, and at a place, that they can access it
whether it is incorporated into tools that increase its accessibility and value
whether the potential user can fulfil conditions placed on access by the originator
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Barriers to the free interchange of information may be:
1. Behavioural2. Related to the nature of the information
itself3. Technical and/or practical4. Resource constraints5. Due to complexities arising from multiple
communities of practice
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1. Behavioural – the reluctance to disclose or share information...Career advancement: For academics sharing
knowledge, without at first having extracted as much personal value as possible from it is unproductive or counterproductive in career terms.
Concerns about inappropriate use: People don’t share because they fear information might be misinterpreted, altered or used in ways which they do not agree with.
Sensitivity: Information may be withheld because those in possession of them think there is a risk of harm occurring if they share them with others.
Concerns about fairness, recognition and attribution: Those who do not share often sense that someone else will profit unfairly, or they will not be properly recognised for their work.
Perceived financial value: Information may be perceived to have direct financial value.
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2. The nature of the information itself
Languages and translation: The use of many different languages worldwide is the most obvious barrier to access information
Differing taxonomies and classification systems: It can be hard to agree what we are referring to:
a) Taxonomies for organismsb) Habitat and ecosystem terms and systems of
classificationc) Taxonomies of threats and impactsd) Standard vocabularies and glossariesDifficulties in applying norms and standards:
Suppliers of information may not wish to adhere to standards because they do not agree with them scientifically or because they do not fit well with their own information needs
Contextual and explanatory information: This key to understanding any piece of information or dataset, but ‘metadata’ is much neglected.
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3. Technical or Practical
Storage: The lack of obvious, widely accessible repositories in the case of those potentially willing to provide it
Discovery: The lack of effective ways of finding data and information in the case of potential users (sounds odd in the world of Google!)
Transfer: Effective ways of transferring data and information from one party to another. [ A vast amount of work has been carried out in this area – in the pre-electronic era in the development of knowledge management, classification and archiving systems and now in the electronic world in terms of data exchange protocols, metadata formats and standards].
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4. Resource constraints Cost recovery: It is difficult to get a fair price for
environmental information and it is not easy equitably to allocate sums recovered between different providers
Mandatory funding through taxation: There is inadequate attention to biodiversity data and its management on the part of governments and international agencies
Donor funding: It is often hard to demonstrate the impact of data and information activities and data/information incur significant recurrent costs which donors are traditionally reluctant to defray
Voluntary contributions: Not straight forward...a) it is difficult to direct effort where it is most
usefulb) it is difficult to control quality of inputs
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5. complexities arising from multiple communities of practice
Sharing across Communities of Practice: Successful conservation requires engagement from an enormous range of individuals in different communities – requiring connections and cooperation across potentially wide gaps in understanding, perspective and behaviour
However, paradoxically, while communities can be very successful at sharing information amongst themselves, this very success, by reinforcing a sense of community, may serve to isolate them from other communities
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Lifting the Barriers – Some suggestions
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Changes focused on publishers and publications
Providing background data and information: Many journals already make it a requirement of publication that background data are made available, either as subsidiary files and documents on the web-site, or by request from the authors. This should be further encouraged, with the former option generally preferable
Increasing open-access: In recent years there has been a considerable shift towards free-access web publication of academic articles, with some on-line journals entirely free and many others having partially free access
Releasing archives: Old papers may contain useful information - most journals have now posted their archival copies, or a considerable proportion of them, online
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Changes focused on donors and others providing support
Building knowledge management and dissemination into projects and programmes: Donors of all stripes should be strongly encouraged to make it a condition of funding that all recipients have a knowledge management and dissemination plan built into the project or programme
Getting commitment to long-term funding of knowledge management/dissemination: Donors should be encouraged to adopt a longer-term approach in supporting knowledge management and dissemination activities
Tying research funding and research permissions to return of data and information: When funding or permission is given by anyone for research and monitoring activities, for example by a government or a protected area manager, that permission should be contingent on providing access to all related data, information and knowledge
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Changes focused on academics and research institutions
Creating incentives for academics to increase access to data: Creating incentives to make academics more willing to share their knowledge in all its forms is challenging, but should be attempted...
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Changes focused on governments
Encourage commitment to freedom of information: Governments find themselves under conflicting pressures to enforce or strengthen intellectual property rights on one hand and to enable open access to information on the other. They should be encouraged to follow the latter course as far as practicable
Encourage continuation of funding for information resources: Governments need to be reminded of the long-term importance of data and information, and the value of more effective and efficient use of data, information and knowledge needs to be communicated
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Changes focused on ‘knowledge brokers’ – “Friends of the Commons”
Setting an example The Friends should consider changing their management paradigm so that by default all data, information and knowledge are made freely available - and establish self assessment and reporting
Preparing ”What does it mean” and “ How to?” guides: The Friends should interpret and elaborate on the Principles and develop benchmarks and indicators of compliance based on studies of best practice in regard to their practical implementation
Creating better road maps: Tracking down useful information on the web is still laborious and hit-and-miss despite search engines...
Establishing and maintaining easy-to-use repositories: Many more people might make resources available if there was somewhere obvious to put them and they could put them there with minimum effort