Earth Summit 2012  - In 2012 a United Nations conference on the environment will take place for the fourth time since 1972. During the conference which is dedicated to sustainable development, the international community will discuss the many challenges related to the environment, the use of resources and climate. At his meeting of April 14, 2010, the Federal council decided that Switzerland will attend the conference.

Biodiversity in Switzerland from 1900 to the present – has decline bottomed out?  In 2003, the European Ministers for the environment agreed to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010. Do we have achieved this goal? The study of the Swiss Forum Biodiversity brings a broad documented answer to this question. The detailed analysis which is based on the best available data and on a differentiated approach depicts the state and trends of biodiversity in Switzerland since 1900. The results show that there is still an urgent need to act. The study is available in French and German, an English abstract is available here .

Official Video of the International Year of Biodiversity 

The Swiss Information System Biodiversity (SIB) is Switzerland's contribution to the global network of Clearing-House Mechanisms (CHM) under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).