United Nations Environment Programme, P.O. Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya.
Environ Monit Assess. 1988 Jan;11(3):219-23. doi: 10.1007/BF00394671.
GEMS is an established, operational fact, a fact that has been with us for ten years. In 1975, following the instructions of the UN Conference on the Human Environment, UNEP moved into the field of environmental monitoring by establishing at its Nairobi Headquaters a Programme Activity Centre for GEMS. The role given to this Programme Activity Centre is to co-ordinate the disparate international monitoring activities that are conducted thoughout the world, particulary within the UN system, and to advise the Environment Fund of UNEP on how best to support and stimulate the initiation of new activities or the expansion of ongoing ones through the allocation of financial resources to these activities.The data gathered within the GEMS networks are used for assessment of the state of the environment and its trends, for better, more rational management of the environment and its natural resources. Ten years after it began the United Nations GEMS effort can be seen to be both fully operational and global in scope.
全球环境监测系统（GEMS）是既定的、运作中的事实，是我们已经经历了十年的事实。1975 年，遵循联合国人类环境会议的指示，环境署通过在其位于内罗毕的总部设立全球环境监测系统方案活动中心，进入环境监测领域。该方案活动中心的作用是协调在全世界、特别是在联合国系统内开展的各种不同的国际监测活动，并就如何通过向这些活动分配财政资源来支持和促进新活动的启动或正在开展的活动的扩展，向环境署环境基金提供咨询意见。在全球环境监测系统网络中收集的数据用于评估环境状况及其趋势，以便更好、更合理地管理环境及其自然资源。在开始这项工作十年后，联合国全球环境监测系统的努力可以被视为具有全面的业务活动和全球范围。
