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First operational tool to be established following the Grenelle Environnement, the Fondation scientifique pour la biodiversité was launched February 26th by the French ministers of environment and of research.
The objective of the Foundation is to help develop, support and coordinate research activities on biodiversity, as well as their utilisation by society. It will work along the 4 main lines of the National Strategy on Biodiversity.
It is sponsored by the 8 leading French public research institutions on biodiversity : CEMAGREF, CIRAD, CNRS, IFREMER, INRA, IRD, MNHN et BRGM. The ambition of the ministries and institutions that initiated the Foundation is to provide a dialogue platform for all biodiversity stakeholders in France, in particular private firms, associations and NGOs, and to promote the application of research results to biological, socio-economic and legal related matters. All French stakeholders involved in biodiversisty can join the Foundation through its Scientific Council for scientists, its Strategic Orientation Council or through contractual joint activities for other stakeholders (research, publication and public awareness, inventories, data bases, collections and infrastructures).
The Foundation will encompass the activities currently undertaken by the “Institut Français de
la Biodiversité ” and the “Bureau des Ressources Génétiques”, enhancing their synergies and providing the National Collections of genetic resources with the legal basis they need for a sound and long-term functioning. |
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