IUCN Statement | 19 Dec, 2022
IUCN welcomes the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, which was adopted at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15) in Montreal, Canada on 19 December 2022 after four long years of negotiations. We congratulate the Chinese Presidency, Canadian hosts and the CBD secretariat for their…
Story | 10 Dec, 2022
The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and Environmental Human Rights Defenders
Environmental Human Rights defenders, including Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, women and youth, continue to shape global discussions and actions to address the climate and biodiversity crisis. As front-line defenders against environmental degradation, their activism contributes…
Story | 07 Dec, 2022
Partnerships to strengthen small-scale fishers’ human rights
CEESP News: Elisa Morgera, Professor of Global Environmental Law and the Director of the UKRI GCRF One Ocean Hub and IUCN CEESP member and Senia Febrica, Knowledge Exchange Associate, One Ocean Hub.
Story | 07 Dec, 2022
Manipur fishers hold rally raising awareness on Loktak biodiversity
CEESP News: Salam Rajesh, IUCN CEESP member
Fishing community in Manipur’s Loktak Lake, a Ramsar designated wetland, is blending conservation initiatives with addressing imminent threats to their lives and livelihoods from external interventions. In tune with the objectives…
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IUCN participated in the CBD COP15 in Montreal to advocate for a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework that sets coherent and ambitious goals and targets to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity by 2030.
Story | 23 Jun, 2022
CEESP News: Judith Baetaa & Cristina Chaminadeb
This contribution presents some key initiatives supporting blue transitions in the Pacific of Costa Rica and discusses the challenges that the adoption of these initiatives bring to NGOs supporting communities of Small-Scale Artisanal…
Story | 23 Jun, 2022
The other ocean conference: an invitation to listen and join the plight of the Ocean Peoples
CEESP News: Paula Satizábal1 & Philippe Le Billon2 Ocean peoples are resisting the criminalization, dispossession and exclusion of small-scale fisheries. Join and listen to the plight of Ocean Peoples at the Conference of the Ocean People, on the 26th, 28th, 30th June, at 4:00pm CET, as a…
Story | 23 Jun, 2022
Developing new partnerships for protecting small-scale fishers' human rights
CEESP News: Elisa Morgera, Director, One Ocean Hub, and Professor of Global Environmental Law at University of Strathclyde Law School, Glasgow (UK) and CEESP member
The One Ocean Hub, a global research coalition, is co-developing partnerships at different scales, between fishers'…
Story | 23 Jun, 2022
Progressing gender equality in the fisheries sector
CEESP News: Dr. Sangeeta Mangubhai1 & Dr. Sarah Lawless2
Gender equality is critical for effective and equitable conservation and development outcomes in coastal countries. Commitments to gender equality have surged, yet the depth and effectiveness of these commitments are unclear. A…
Story | 23 Jun, 2022
Progress on Community-Based Subsistence Fishing Areas (CBSFA)
CEESP News: The authors of this article are members of the E Alu Pu Network the founding network of Kua'aina Ulu Auamo or KUA, an inaugural IUCN IPO Member. KUA's Executive Director Kevin Chang is a member of CEESP.
World Oceans Day in Hawai’i coincided this year with real progress on…