News | 24 Jul, 2024
With support from the United States Department of State, the EPPIC international collaboration will be implemented in Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala, to enable the transition to circular plastic economies.
Story | 22 Jul, 2024
Closing the Caribbean Plastic Tap: propelling Caribbean SIDS towards a plastic-free future
Initiative funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation and aimed at addressing recyclable and nonrecyclable plastic waste and plastic leakage in five Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS), kicks off with national inception workshops in Saint Lucia and Saint Kitts and Nevis…
News | 02 Jul, 2024
Africa Ocean Forum Concludes with Promising Outcomes for Ocean Conservation and Governance
The Africa Ocean Forum, organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), took place on June 24-25, 2024, in Nairobi, Kenya. With active participation from over 150 delegates, including policymakers, industry experts, scientists, and community leaders, the forum addressed…
Press release | 27 Jun, 2024
Albania joins IUCN as its newest State Member
IUCN, the world’s biggest environmental network, extends a warm welcome to Albania as its 87th State Member, following their formal endorsement of the IUCN Statutes. This step demonstrates Albania's commitment to global conservation efforts. The Ministry of Tourism and Environment has been…
Story | 19 Jun, 2024
Investing for Ocean Impact podcast, Season 3: Deep Sea Mining
The ocean’s seabed harbours a range of mineral reserves containing valuable metals and compounds. But under international law these resources have been designated “the common heritage of mankind”, a designation backed up by the body responsible for both preserving and allowing their use, the…
Story | 12 Jun, 2024
The Coca-Cola Foundation has announced their largest grant ever, made to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to mitigate plastic waste and transform plastic value chains in seven African islands through IslandPlas project.
Blog | 12 Jun, 2024
The International Union for Conservation (IUCN), in partnership with the Rwanda Forestry Authority, and with financial support from the Large-scale Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) in Africa (AREECA) and Transforming Eastern Province Through Adaptation (TREPA), convened the 17th National Cross…
IUCN event
The second Meghna Knowledge Forum (MKF 2024) will be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, between 5 – 7 November 2024 under the theme “Building community and ecosystem resilience to climate change”.
Story | 10 Jun, 2024
Scaling Up NbS: Economic Barriers
In 2020, IUCN published the Global Standard for NbS that scores NbS using eight criteria and associated indicators. Criterion 4 covers the economic viability of NbS, including the direct and indirect…
Story | 07 Jun, 2024
Water resource management and mangrove conservation are two potential areas of collaboration identified during the visit of a delegation from the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment to the IUCN Regional Office for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.