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Article: RESEARCH: COMMISSION SUPPORTS NEW GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION FACILITY.
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- Europe Environment
- Article date:
- March 6, 2001
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The GBIF initiative stems from the report of the OECD Megascience forum on Biological Informatics whose conclusions were endorsed by the OECD Science and Technology Ministers in June 1999. The establishment of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) was approved in Copenhagen on 2-3 December 2000 by consensus of the 32 delegations present (11 Member States, the European Commission, South Africa, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, South Korea, Costa Rica, the United States, Guatemala, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Slovenia and Taiwan).The facility is an international project to provide access to vast quantities of data on our planet's ...