[Taxacom] UNEP governing council: calling for open access to environmental information

[Donat Agosti]

Dear colleagues

 

Below a call to endorse a statement submitted by the Conservation Commons to
the UNEP Governing Council and Global Ministerial Environmental Forum to
consider the Principles of the Conservation Commons and, ensure that all
past, present and future publicly funded research results, assessments,
maps, and databases on the environment and biodiversity are made freely and
openly accessible to everyone.

 

For those wishing to endorse this statement, either as individuals or
representing organizations, you may do so on line via the following link:

 
<http://www.conservationcommons.org/section.php?section=work&sous-section=en
dorsement&langue=en>
http://www.conservationcommons.org/section.php?section=work&sous-section=end
orsement&langue=en

This call is important to assure that environmental data is increasingly
made open access, best demonstrated by NASA's release of invaluable remote
sensing data or the many systematics institutions opening up their holding
and supported with GBIF's global access portal.

 

It includes access to literature, but there is a strong focus on primary
data, gray literature and knowledge. This is not the single golden shot, but
it is one aiming at removing the impediment at governmental level.

 

Donat Agosti

Dr. Donat Agosti

Science Consultant

Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History and Naturmuseum der
Burgergemeinde Bern

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