"The IUCN Green List Standard is to provide a global benchmark for protected and conserved areas to assess whether they are achieving successful conservation outcomes through effective and equitable governance and management. The IUCN Green List Standard includes globally consistent Components and Criteria, which are supported by indicators to measure site performance."
IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas: Standards Committee
The Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas is a global sustainability standard that is used to highlight global successes in protected areas. This helps to recognise different effective management practices and to highlight knowledge gaps and needs that Protected and Conserved Areas are facing. The benefits of GLPA’s are that they allow protected areas to adapt to local context while remaining globally consistent while identifying common strengths and challenges in protected areas management.
Between 2012 -2014, IUCN coordinated a Green List pilot phase in eight countries and announced the first protected areas to meet the criteria during the IUCN World Parks Congress in Sydney in November (2014). Seven of the total 25 areas recognized across the world were located in Mediterranean countries (France, Italy, and Spain). The IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas has also been recognized as a Flagship Initiative under the Mediterranean Strategy on Sustainable Development (MSSD) 2016-2025, adopted during the 19th Convention of the Parties of the Barcelona Convention, held in Athens from the 9th to the 11th of February.
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| France has a total of 15 listed areas and 16 candidates, that are managed by the IUCN French National Committee. For knowledge purposes, the following list only mentions areas in the Mediterranean region. |
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The Italian Expert Assessment Group for Green List (EAGL), established and trained in 2019, is steadily advancing in with the assessment of 5 candidate sites from Italy for 2020.
In Spain, the EAGL has finalized the adaptation of the Green list indicators to the country specificities as well as the related public consultation. We expect the Standard for Spain to be approved by the end of the year and open the process for candidacies of parks in early 2021.
The Expert Assessment Group for the Green List in the Maghreb (EAGL-Maghreb) was established in 2018. It is a regional EAGL composed of members from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. EAGL-Maghreb participated in a training on the application of the Standards and finalised the adaptation of the GL indicators to the regional context in the Maghreb. Seven candidate sites have been received from the three Maghreb countries (see list below). EAGL-Maghreb have started in 2020 the evaluation for some sites providing feedback to site managers according to the procedures.
In 2018, the IUCN-Med participated in the European Core Working Group of experts by supporting the call for site managers to apply for the testing phase of the LIFE Green List for Natura 2000 project funded by the European Commission. Project outcomes can be found here.
Join the community and gain recognition for a protected area in your region and apply to be part of the Green List by applying with a self-assessment on the Green List website.
For further information about the Mediterranean areas and the IUCN Green List, contact Carla Danelutti.
