Side Event

GSPC - Achieving Target 1: a World Flora online by 2020

Organizer
Dr Peter Wyse Jackson Chairman, Global Partner for Plant Conservation and President, Missouri Botanical Garden

Date and Time
2 May 2012 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Sixteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice

This event will outline the process towards the achievement of a World Flora online by 2020, to support the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation and its national implementation. An international project to lead in the development of the Flora will be announced by botanical institutions including the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, the New York Botanical Garden and the Missouri Botanical Garden. The ways in which national participants can contribute to and use the Flora will be highlighted.