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html) for environmental management contains just 60; a two-orders of magnitude evidence deficit. This imbalance between sectors is brought into sharp focus when interdis-ciplinary evidence is required, such as for international synthesis activities. The CEE proposes a five-year programme to build capacity for the conduct and use of SR in the environ-ment sector. The programme will; (1) Increase the commissioning and use of SR in evidence-based policy; (2) Develop the capacity of the global environmental re-search community to conduct SRs and; (3) Develop the * Correspondence: a.s.pullin@bangor.ac.ukequivalent Collaboration for Environmental Evidence acity to conduct systematic reviews and related evidenceTime to build capacity fo environmental managem Andrew S Pullin1,2 * and Teri Knight1,2 The increasing need to intervene and manage our envir-onment, from the local to global level, is evident fro