19 October 2010: An advanced prototype of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)-supported UN Information Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (InforMEA) has been presented on the sidelines of the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), taking place in Nagoya, Japan. InforMEA is a shared web portal that harmonizes MEA information systems, making it possible to locate and retrieve all decisions and resolutions tagged to a specific term in seconds.

Facilitated by the UNEP Division of Environmental Law and Conventions (DELC), the web portal was developed by UNEP, along with Biodiversity-related MEAs including CBD, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. The prototype was presented during the side event at CBD COP 10. [InforMEA portal]