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CO2 concentrations are at their highest in 650,000 years.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was called for by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2000 in his report to the UN General Assembly, We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century. Governments subsequently supported the establishment of the assessment through decisions taken by three international conventions, and the MA was initiated in 2001.
The MA was conducted under the auspices of the United Nations, with the secretariat coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme, and it was governed by a multi-stakeholder board that included representatives of international institutions, governments, business, NGOs, and indigenous peoples. The objective of the MA was to assess the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and to establish the scientific basis for actions needed to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems and their contributions to human well-being.
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Ecosystems and Human Well-Being -Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Panel
Harold A. Mooney (co-chair), Stanford University, United States
Angela Cropper (co-chair), The Cropper Foundation, Trinidad and Tobago
Doris Capistrano, Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia
Stephen R. Carpenter, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Kanchan Chopra, Institute of Economic Growth, India
Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Rik Leemans, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Robert M. May, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Prabhu Pingali, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy
Rashid Hassan, University of Pretoria, South Africa Cristián Samper, Smithsonian
National Museum of Natural History, United States
Robert Scholes, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
Robert T. Watson, The World Bank, United States (ex officio)
A. H. Zakri, United Nations University, Japan (ex officio)
Zhao Shidong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Editorial Board Chairs
José Sarukhán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Anne Whyte, Mestor Associates Ltd., Canada
MA Director
Walter V. Reid, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Malaysia and United States
Core Writing Team
Walter V. Reid, Harold A. Mooney, Angela Cropper, Doris Capistrano, Stephen R. Carpenter, Kanchan Chopra, Partha Dasgupta, Thomas Dietz, Anantha Kumar Duraiappah, Rashid Hassan, Roger Kasperson, Rik Leemans, Robert M. May, Tony (A.J.) McMichael, Prabhu Pingali, Cristián Samper, Robert Scholes, Robert T. Watson,
A.H. Zakri, Zhao Shidong, Neville J. Ash, Elena Bennett, Pushpam Kumar, Marcus J. Lee, Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, Henk Simons, Jillian Thonell, and Monika B. Zurek
Extended Writing Team MA Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors, Contributing Authors, and Sub-global Assessment Coordinators Review Editors José Sarukhán and Anne Whyte (co-chairs) and MA Board of Review Editors
