Environment: two new tools to combat biodiversity loss The
opening session of the Green Week conference in Brussels today
saw the unveiling of two new weapons to step up the fight
against biodiversity loss. BISE, the Biodiversity Information
System for Europe, is a new web portal centralising information
about European biodiversity in a single location. The European
Environment Agency and the European Commission have also
developed a "biodiversity baseline" to be used by policymakers,
offering a comprehensive snapshot of the current state of
biodiversity. The baseline will be used to monitor progress in
the renewed efforts to halting biodiversity loss, and will allow
trends beyond 2010 to be clearly established and measured.