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Policy > Influencing Decision-Making and Policy
Influencing Decision-Making and Policy
BGCI is a full partner with Fauna and Flora International in the Global Trees Campaign and provides the Secretariat for the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation. Over the next five years, BGCI will continue to maintain its position as a leading advocate for plant conservation, with specific aims to:
Latest NewsBONN, GERMANY
6th June 2008
The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) underwent an in-depth review at the 9th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP9) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), held in Bonn, Germany from 19-31 May. GLOBAL
15th January 2008
Conservationists from around the world have declared 2008 the Year of the Frog to highlight their new campaign to save threatened amphibians from extinction. IRELAND
7th December 2007
National Botanic Gardens director Peter Wyse Jackson has identified 171 species of Irish flora that could be facing extinction by 2050 due to climate change. The news comes as he Irish government launches a €15 million campaign to raise public awareness and change behaviour countrywide. |
International Agenda for Botanic Gardens in Conservation
 The International Agenda is a global policy framework for botanic gardens worldwide to contribute to biodiversity conservation. Find out more about how botanic gardens are contributing here.
The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
 The GSPC is a plan to save the world's plant species. Botanic gardens are making a major contribution worldwide. Click the image to find out more.
Download the Gran Canaria Declaration on Climate Change as a PDF
 In issuing its ‘Gran Canaria Declaration on Climate Change and Plant Conservation’ the Gran Canaria Group, whose membership is drawn from major biodiversity conservation organisations around the world, calls on the international community to take urgent action to protect global plant diversity. |
BGCI is well-known and widely respected for its role in policy development and implementation relating to plant conservation. It is, for example, generally acknowledged that without the policy work of BGCI, the GSPC would not have been developed and adopted by the Convention on Biological Diversity.