Project | 01 Jul, 2021 - 28 Feb, 2022
Promoting Pacific Island Nature-based Solutions Detailed Design
Project | 01 Nov, 2023 - 31 May, 2025
Story | 03 Mar, 2024
Local communities in South Malekula empowered to protect natural resources
Seven new conservation sites were established when the LAMACCA Kiwa Initiative project team conducted their capacity trainings for community conservation and environment committees in South Malekula in September 2023.
Project | 31 Mar, 2021 - 30 Aug, 2025
Scaling-up Ecosystem based Adaptation Measures in rural Latin America
Scaling up the EbA approach to increase the resilience to climate change of vulnerable communities and ecosystems in rural areas of Ecuador, Guatemala and Costa Rica.
Grey literature | 2021
Pacific Regional Report (Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu) for the Plastic Waste Free Islands project
This report is a consolidation of in-country data gathered during 2020 in three Pacific countries: Fiji, Samoa and Vanuatu. For the purpose of this report, all regional data analysis is based on these countries only. Data collection encompassed three sectors — household and commercial, tourism…
News | 02 Aug, 2023
Galápagos National Park Begins Journey Towards Prestigious IUCN Green List Certification
The Galápagos National Park has embarked on a momentous endeavor as it sets its sights on achieving certification on the prestigious International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Green List.
Grey literature | 2023
Plastic Waste Free Islands Gender Study
To inform gender-responsive programming for the Plastic Waste Free Islands project, IUCN commissioned a study to provide an analysis of plastic pollution in the tourism, waste management, and fisheries sectors of the PWFI islands in the Caribbean (Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, and Saint Lucia)…
Story | 16 Mar, 2023
A new report from the IUCN Plastic Waste Free Islands project answers the question, “What are key human rights issues arising from plastic pollution in the tourism, fisheries, and waste management sectors in the PWFI islands and how do these issues impact men and women differently?”
Grey literature | 2022
Summary of the economic impact of marine plastic pollution in Fiji, Samoa, and Vanuatu
The impacts of marine plastics on the fisheries and tourism sectors in 2019 were estimated for Fiji, Samoa and Vanuatu. Impact estimates were based on both plastic accumulation and leakage into the marine environment from these countries and other countries in the Southern Pacific.
Story | 03 Mar, 2023
The problem that has no name: Gender, climate migration, and the case of Israel
Dr. Hadas Cohen, Visiting Assistant Professor and Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at the Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israeli Studies, University of Oklahoma
Israel, a climate change hot spot, is preparing for global warming. The government is aware…