Little girl, daughter of a fisherman in the Natural Reserve Padre Ramos, Nicaragua

What is the IUCN Programme?

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 for consultation the draft IUCN Programme for 2013-2016. This document marks the start of a five-month consultation process where we look for feedback from our Members and Commissions to help shape this new Programme. The final draft will be submitted to IUCN Members for adoption at the World Conservation Congress in September 2012.

IUCN Members and Commissions Members are encouraged to actively participate in these consultations by attending the Regional Conservation Forums and/or by sending their comments in writing to programme@iucn.org by 10 October 2011 at the latest.
 

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IUCN Programme 2009-2012

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.

Community discussing solutions to a changing climate and water flows in Olbil, Tanzania

Durban deal breathes new life into climate talks - IUCN

Durban, South Africa, 11 December 2011 (IUCN). Governments at the UN climate talks in Durban agree on a package of measures to sustain current global efforts to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions and to conclude a new agreement with legal force that would involve all countries in averting the threat of dangerous global climate change. …   | Spanish

13 Dec 2011 | IUCN statement

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona World Heritage Property

More World Heritage Sites, more challenges for conservation

Paris, France, 29 June, 2011. Four outstanding natural sites in Kenya, Jordan, Australia and Japan were given World Heritage status following the advice of IUCN to the World Heritage Committee, which closes today in Paris. An extension to an existing World Heritage Site in Ukraine and Slovakia was also granted to the Ancient Beech Forests in Germany. …   | Spanish

29 Jun 2011 | IUCN statement

IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre 'unplugs' for Earth Hour

Message from IUCN's Director General for Earth Hour – 8:30pm, 26 March

A message from IUCN Director General, Julia Marton-Lefèvre for Earth Hour – 8:30pm, Saturday 26 March. …  

24 Mar 2011 | IUCN statement

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