IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature

The IUCN Programme provides the framework for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the conservation work undertaken by the Commissions and the Secretariat with and on behalf of IUCN Members. It is discussed and approved by Member organizations every four years at IUCN’s World Conservation Congress.
  
IUCN draft Programme 2013-2016

IUCN submits to our Members the final draft of the 2013-2016 Programme  for adoption at the World Conservation Congress in September 2012. This document is the result of a five-month consultation process where we looked for feedback from our Members and Commissions to help shape this new Programme. The French and Spanish versions will be uploaded soon. 

Our Programme is a result-based, demand-driven plan of action that addresses global issues and incorporates national level priorities. In view of the ever-growing threat to environmental health and the lack of progress towards sustainability, the IUCN Programme recognizes the continuing need to support biodiversity conservation at all levels, with governments, civil society and the private sector. It strengthens the Union’s heartland work on conserving biodiversity as the basis for developing more effective and strategic interventions linked to the global sustainability agenda in the areas of climate change, energy, poverty and security, and economy and markets.