References and Notes 1. U.N. Millennium Project, Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development

Change may provide a means to enhance the quality and timeliness of the inter actions between scientists and policy-makers at national scales and above. The GLOBE Inter-national Commission on Land Use Change and Ecosystems, made up of senior legisla-tors from the G8+5 and several developing countries, provides another opportunity to bring policy-makers and scientists together. Similar initiatives will also be needed at the subnational scale. The United Nations will convene a sum-mit in 2010 to consider the second 5-year review of the MDGs and to catalyze action ahead of the 2015 MDG target year. We must advise policy-makers and civil society organi-zations on the most critical initiatives needed to achieve the MDGs while preserving biodi-versity and ecosystem services