The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is the host for the portal to The Convention on Biological Diversity. According to Government Commission (in pdf-format, 474 kB) the portal has been put in place in cooperation with The Swedish Biodiversity Centre and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Each organization linked to from the portal is responsible for its own information. The pre-selected information within different thematical areas is built on information from the Swedish EnviroNet .

Contacts for the Swedish Clearing-House mechanism
Lars Berg , The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

Contact persons for various themes

Lars Berg - Introduction, News, Policy & actors, About CBD, Forest, Taxonomy & collections

Melanie Josefsson - Alien species

Cecilia Lindblad - Marine and coastal biodiversity

Thomas Nilsson - Research on biodiversity

Lena Tranvik - Inland waters biodiversity

Anki Weibull - Agricultural biodiversity

Marianne Wetterin - Threatened species


The following people have participated in the work

Introduction, About CBD, Policy & actors
Lars Berg, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Tor-Björn Larsson, earlier The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Mia Kristersson, Lund University

  Access and benefit sharing
Mia Kristersson
, Lund University
Lars Berg, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

Biodiversity in agricultural areas
Ann-Marie Dock Gustavsson, The Swedish Board of Agriculture.
Gunnar Rosqvist,The Swedish Board of Agriculture
Thomas Nilsson, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Lars Björk, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,SLU
Katarina Hedlund,University of Lund

 

Biodiversity in forests
Gunnar Nordanstig, National Board of Forestry
Jenny Lonnstad, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Eva Lagerblad, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Lena Gustafsson, The Forestry Research Institute of Sweden
Ulf Grandin, SLU
Malin Bendz-Hellgren, SLU
Göran Kempe, SLU
Per Nilsson, SLU
Kjell Sjöberg, SLU
Lars Lundin, SLU
Ola Inghe, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Jonas Rudberg, The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
Linus Svensson, ZooTech HB

Biodiversity in lakes and watercourses
Lena Tranvik, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Jan Herrman, The University of Kalmar
Richard K Johnson, SLU
Eva Willén, SLU
Maria Hellsten, National Board of Fisheries
  Biodiversity in sea and coastal areas
Per Nilsson, University of Gothenburg
Cathy Hill, WWF
Ingrid Jansson, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Tove Lundeberg, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Fredrik Arrhenius, The National Board of Fisheries
Introduced species
Melanie Josefsson
, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Per Sjögren Gulve, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Lena Berg, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Ninni Lundblad, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Göran Kroeker, The Swedish Board of Agriculture
Ingrid Åkesson, The Swedish Board of Agriculture
Åke Andersson, The Swedish Association for Hunting and Wildlife
Linda Laikre, University of Stockholm
Torbjörn Ebenhard, Swedish Biodiversity Centre
Mikael Norén, The National Board of Forestry
  Nature in Sweden
Leo Berch, (earlier the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency)
English translation
Leo Berch, (earlier the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Lars Berg, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Taxonomy
Torbjörn Ebenhard, Swedish Biodiversity Centre
 

Drawings
Toni Llobet, Catalonia

Threatened species
Marianne Wetterin, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
  Web production
Jon Wikman
Åsa Präntare, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is the Swedish national focal point for the Clearing-House Mechanism of the convention.
Responsible for the page: Lars Berg
Last updated: 24 February 2005