Jointly published | 2023
Options for strengthening action on Ocean and Coasts under the UNFCCC, 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. Report recommendations focus primarily on opportunities for advancing coastal Nature-based Solutions…
Conservation Tool
The Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation Planning Tool
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).
Position paper | 2022
IUCN Position Paper for UN Ocean Conference 2022
IUCN welcomes the increasing recognition and importance given to the ocean since the first UN Ocean Conference in 2017 and also welcomes the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021–2030 to strengthen scientific understanding of the ocean.
Other brief
Protected and conserved Areas are vital solutions to a range of critical global problems. They are fundamental in avoiding the loss of biodiversity, are essential contributors to mitigating and adapting to climate change and are the first line of defence in avoiding future pandemics.…
Related website | 2022
#NatureForAll Ecological Pathways to Change: 2021 and Beyond
This document outlines the path forward for #NatureForAll to inspire love and care for nature, and to reconnect cultures and nature everywhere. It lays the groundwork for a global network of local and regional initiatives.
Other brief
Remoteness – the degree to which localities or areas of land are physically or perceptually isolated from the evidence and direct influences of modern technological society – can contribute to the values and viability of a wilderness area.
Other brief | 2022
At the Open-Ended Working Group 3 (OEWG) negotiations for the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Geneva (March 2022) a new proposal to include “sustainable development areas” was put forward by one Party for inclusion in Target 3 of the GBF…
Position paper | 2022
IUCN position paper for UNFCCC COP27
UNFCCC COP27 is taking place at a time of considerable global turmoil, with growing economic hardship and food and energy insecurity worsening the effects of a still ongoing pandemic. Yet, as the extreme weather events of 2022 – catastrophic floods, droughts and hurricanes – illustrate, the…
Information brief | 2022
Role of Protected Areas in Climate Change Mitigation and Biodiversity Conservation
There is general consensus that biodiversity loss and climate change are twin crises requiring integrated, comprehensive and holistic approaches… The creation of new Protected areas (PAs), the expansion of existing ones, protecting and establishing conservation corridors that connect PAs, and…