Biodiversity Year Ends on a High Note - UN General Assembly Backs Resolution - ‘IPCC-for Nature’

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Biodiversity Year Ends on a High Note as UN General Assembly Backs Resolution Signing into Life an ‘IPCC-for Nature’

December 21, 2010
United Nations Environment Programme

New York/Nairobi - A new international body aimed at catalyzing a global response to the loss of biodiversity and world’s economically-important forests, coral reefs and other ecosystems was born yesterday by governments at the United Nations 65th General Assembly (UNGA).