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IUCN at UN Climate Change Conference COP29
From 11 to 22 November 2024, IUCN will participate in the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Given the rising impacts of climate change across the world, it is crucial that COP29 delivers concrete and accelerated progress across all the pillars of the Paris Agreement, particularly on finance, and enables significantly stronger national commitments from countries to keep the 1.5°C goal within reach.
Guided by its position paper, IUCN will be actively engaged in various processes and spaces across the conference. In addition to calling for greater ambition on mitigation, adaptation, and finance, it will particularly reinforce the interlinkages between the climate change and biodiversity loss crises, highlight the critical role of healthy ecosystems and nature-based solutions in climate mitigation and adaptation, and underscore the vital importance of inclusion and justice in effective climate policy and action.
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IUCN's Position paper
Position paper
2024
UNFCCC COP29 will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 11 to 22 November 2024. It takes place against a backdrop of toppling temperature records and unprecedented extreme weather events – heatwaves,…
Position paper
2024
La COP29 de la CCNUCC se tiendra à Bakou, Azerbaïdjan, du 11 au 22 novembre 2024. Elle se déroulera dans un contexte de records de températures et de phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes sans…
Position paper
2024
La COP29 de la CMNUCC se celebrará en Bakú, Azerbaiyán, del 11 al 22 de noviembre de 2024. Se lleva a cabo en un contexto de récords en los registros de temperaturas y de fenómenos meteorológicos…
IUCN Technical Briefs
The IUCN technical papers have been prepared by experts from IUCN Commissions and others to provide a more in-depth perspective on key topics related to biodiversity and climate change.
Information brief
2024
Many parties and civil society representatives are gearing up for their second COP in the space of a month!
Other brief
Renewable energy development is critical to addressing climate change, but poses emerging risks for protected and conserved areas (PCAs). As the demand for renewables increases to meet climate goals…
Information brief
2024
This brief outlines progress and challenges in meeting Target 3, with a focus on governance, sustainable financing, and climate resilience.
Other brief
2024
Brief for the UNFCCC SB60 Expert Dialogue on Mountains and Climate Change. This brief aims to contribute to the Expert Dialogue on Mountains and Climate Change Dialogue during SB60 and advocates…
Other brief
2024
Briefing and input to the UNFCCC SB60 & the Expert Dialogue on children and climate change. Nature-based Education and Climate Education are whole-of-society policy solutions that address the…
Information brief
Land-use change and degradation have reduced the potential for natural carbon sequestration and adversely affected ecosystem resilience. Restoration can play a major role in enhancing the capacity of…
Information brief
2023
A significant proportion of carbon mitigation projects implemented through market mechanisms (e.g., trading and offset) have a focus on energy efficiency, renewable energy, forestry, transport, and…
Information brief
2023
There is general consensus that biodiversity loss and climate change are twin crises requiring integrated, comprehensive and holistic approaches. As aptly articulated by António Guterres, Secretary…
Climate Change Issues Briefs
IUCN Issues Briefs provide an accessible overview of the often complex issues related to nature conservation and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Issues brief
Forests help stabilise the climate. They regulate ecosystems, protect biodiversity, play an integral part in the carbon cycle, support livelihoods, and can help drive sustainable growth.
To…
Issues brief
Drylands are home to species and people that have developed unique strategies to cope with the climatic variability unique to this environment.
Drylands are particularly affected by climate…
Issues brief
December 2021
Peatlands are a type of wetland which are critical for preventing and mitigating the effects of climate change, preserving biodiversity, minimising flood risk, and ensuring safe drinking water.
…
Issues brief
Shifting weather patterns as a result of climate change, affecting rainfall and temperature, are likely to impact the ecosystem goods and services such as clean water and food on which people…
Issues brief
The ~1ºC rise in mean global temperature is causing serious and often unexpected impacts on species, affecting their abundance, genetic composition, behaviour and survival.
Species declines…
Issues brief
Building climate change resilience through water management and ecosystems
Climate change manifests itself primarily through changes in the water cycle. As climate changes, droughts, floods,…
Issues brief
Due to increased greenhouse gas emissions, extended periods of extreme warming in seas and oceans have increased in frequency by 50% in the past 10 years and are becoming more severe.
These Marine…
Issues brief
Strengthening climate action by promoting gender equality
Women and men are experiencing climate change differently, as gender inequalities persist around the world…
IUCN climate change publications
IUCN engages on climate change from multiple perspectives, from assessing the risks that climate change poses, to advancing practical and inclusive nature-based solutions centred on the better conservation, management and restoration of the world’s ecosystems.
Jointly published
2024
Edition 2
The third five-year cycle of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), due in 2025, represents a crucial opportunity to scale up global emissions reductions and strengthen…
Publication
2024
Historically, droughts have caused extensive damage. Effective responses to drought remain a challenge, with reactive and crisis-oriented approaches dominating many interventions. The…
Publication
2024
Global climate mitigation policies are promoting a radical shift in emission reduction activities to achieve net-zero targets by 2050. Although recent scientific studies have explored…
Jointly published
2023
Coastal blue carbon ecosystems, including mangroves, seagrasses and tidal marshes, are some of the most carbon-rich ecosystems on Earth, and are vital to mitigating the impacts of climate change…
Jointly published
2023
A summary of the key entry points within existing UNFCCC processes and negotiations where management actions concerning coastal and marine ecosystems can play a productive role in climate action…
Other brief
2022
There is general consensus that biodiversity loss and climate change are twin crises requiring integrated, comprehensive and holistic approaches. As aptly articulated by António Guterres,…
Jointly published
2022
World Heritage glaciers cover almost 10% of the Earth’s glacierized area and play a crucial role in sustaining life on Earth. However, they are retreating at an accelerated rate because of…
Grey literature
2022
Ocean threats: acidification, deoxygenation, warming, heatwaves. Do we have anything useful to bend, change, or reverse the results? This brochure, conceived to advocate and educate at the UNFCCC…
COP29 news from IUCN
Story
29 November, 2024
At COP29, LONGi Green Energy Technology Co. Ltd. and IUCN signed a Memorandum of Understanding to…
IUCN Statement
24 November, 2024
As the UN climate talks closed in Baku, Azerbaijan, IUCN recognised the new collective quantified…
News
21 November, 2024
The International Union for Conservation of Nature together with the Presidency of the 29th…
News
20 November, 2024
A reception at the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference has celebrated the 60th…
IUCN Events at COP29
IUCN is hosting and participating in a number of side events and activities during COP29.
