Jointly published | 2023
Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0
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.
Grey literature | 2023
Measuring the effectiveness of environmental law through legal indicators and quality analyses
Efforts to assess the effectiveness of environmental law through legal indicators are indispensable at a time when environmental law and its effective implementation and enforcement are crucial in the global transformation towards a sustainable society. Environmental law requires tools which…
Page | 19 Sep, 2023
About the End Plastic Pollution International Collaborative (EPPIC)
EPPIC is a public-private partnership hosted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) with partners the Aspen Institute (USA), The Ocean Foundation (USA), and Searious Business (NL), with initial seed funding from the U.S. Department of State. EPPIC convenes governments,…
Grey literature | 2022
The economic impact of plastic pollution in Antigua and Barbuda
This economic brief shows the estimated impact of marine plastic pollution on fisheries and tourism in Antigua and Barbuda. Marine plastic pollution can generate significant economic costs in the form of gross domestic product (GDP) reductions, estimated at up to US$7 billion (globally) for 2018…
News | 16 Nov, 2022
IUCN and TCP Viet Nam collaborate on EPR to support the circular economy
MONRE led the revision of Law on Environmental Protection (LEP), which was approved by the National Assembly in December 2020. The LEP’s Articles 54-55 provide the legal basis for Extended Producer Responsibilities (EPR), initially for six sectors: packaging, electrical goods, tires, batteries,…
Jointly published | 2022
Guidance and toolkit for impact assessments in a World Heritage context
As the World Heritage Convention celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022, over 1100 sites around the world are recognized as World Heritage - places that are so valuable to humanity that there conservation has been deemed our collective responsibility. Yet many of these exceptional places face…
Page | 16 Jun, 2022
Benefits of natural World Heritage
This project has been instrumental in increasing awareness and understanding of the full range of direct and indirect benefits that local, national and global communities can receive from natural World Heritage sites.
Page | 15 Jun, 2022
The IUCN World Heritage Panel provides high-quality technical and scientific advice on World Heritage, and forms the official position of IUCN in its recommendations to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. The Panel is composed of 10 to 12 conservation experts who are specialised in fields…