COP28 marks an important milestone in global efforts to combat climate change. Among other things, it will witness the culmination of the first global stocktake of the Paris Agreement, which offers the international community a key opportunity to course correct and raise collective ambition to limit warming to 1.5°C. 

Guided by its position paper, IUCN will be actively engaged in various processes and spaces across the conference. 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 inclusive and just climate policy and action.

IUCN will also host the ‘Unite for Nature’ pavilion in the COP28 blue zone, which will provide a concrete platform to showcase the collective work of the Union.