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Science 3 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5765, p. 1227
DOI: 10.1126/science.311.5765.1227b
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It's back to the drawing board for biodiversity experts hoping to share data on the world's flora and fauna with policymakers. Plans for impartial assessments for international environmental conventions failed to gel last week in Paris, where there was "a lot of doubt about how to achieve this best," says Peter Raven, president of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Researchers, government officials, and conservationists hope over the next 18 months to develop what they are calling an International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity that would have more political clout than the 1995 Global Biodiversity Assessment or the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Science, 1 April 2005, p. 41).




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