Governments and NGOs worldwide need credible methods to assess risks toÌýbiodiversity that are consistent, transparent and theoretically sound, to support conservation policy and management.Ìý
The IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology is a comprehensive classification framework for Earth’s ecosystems that integrates their functional and compositional features. As an accepted international standard under several United Nations Conventions, this typology is helping to identify the ecosystems that are most critical for biodiversity conservation, research, management and human wellbeing into the future.
