Notes Preface 1. “Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, ” the

designed to meet the needs of decisionmakers and the public for scientific information on the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and options for responding to those changes [www.millenniumassessment.org]. Building on the collaboration between the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment process and the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, unpublished material from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment has been cited in this report with permission, but the material is still in draft form, and some findings and statistics may change prior to publication. 3. Final text of agreements negotiated by governments at the World Summit on Sus