Programme aimed at the “harmonization of environmental monitoring and research programmes to promote the improved collection and management of data.. to enhance the quality and compatibility of information on the state of the environment world-wide”. The function of the Programme were transferred to UNEP Nairobi [and may no longer exist as a separate programme: some functions may be part of TEMS project? (see separate entry)], but data remains on the UFIS WWW (see separate entry).
Databases include:
(a) Directory of organisations and institutes active in environmental monitoring (HEMI): Information on who is doing what and where in environmental measurement and monitoring. See separate entry
(b) Survey of Environmental Monitoring and Information Management programmes of international organisations (HEMM): see separate entry
(c) Survey of organisations and laboratories manufacturing, supplying or using reference materials for environmental monitoring [HEMO?].