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The Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0 offers a self-assessment methodology to evaluate management effectiveness in a World Heritage property or other heritage places. 

To give structure to the plethora of IUCN tools and methodologies that can be applied in urban ecosystems, IUCN has developed the IUCN Urban Toolbox, a catalogue of knowledge products on urban biodiversity.

Climate change is a major driver and pressure acting on marine biodiversity and is an increasingly critical management consideration for Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs).

The IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology is a comprehensive classification framework for Earth’s ecosystems that integrates their functional and compositional features. This new typology helps identify the ecosystems that are most critical for…

The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems is a tool to assess the conservation status of ecosystems. It is based on scientific criteria for performing evidence-based analyses of the risk of ecosystem collapse, including changes in geographical distribution and the degradation of the key elements of…

The PANORAMA platform identifies and promotes examples of tested and replicable solutions in biodiversity conservation and broader sustainability issues. By providing peer-to-peer exchange opportunities across sectors and geographies, it facilitates…

The global restoration tracker

Among the most diverse places on Earth, Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) contribute significantly to the planet’s biodiversity and overall health. These sites have proven to be a key tool for guiding decisions on conservation and sustainable management. 

The Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT) is the IUCN global standard for measuring the severity of environmental impacts caused by animals, fungi and plants living outside their natural range.

Download the publication here: https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.CH.2021.09.en 

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