Story | 13 Apr, 2021
New Marine Protected Areas MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) now open
The IUCN Programme on African Protected Areas & Conservation is launching a new MOOC on Marine protected areas (MPAs). This new course will complement other courses on protected areas already available, such as Protected areas management in Africa, Ecological…
Story | 07 Apr, 2021
IUCN Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Centrals Asia (ECARO) seeks five (5) applications from qualified individuals based in Serbia to serve as independent experts within the ADAPT project: Nature-based Solutions for resilient societies in…
Story | 05 Apr, 2021
New book: "Advanced Introduction to Community-based Conservation"
CEESP News: by Fikret Berkes, University of Manitoba's Natural Resources Institute
The book is a synthesis of community-based conservation theory and practice, written as a textbook for university students and for international conservation practitioners. Berkes argues that biodiversity…
Story | 02 Apr, 2021
A Martian at the United Nations or Naive Thoughts on Global Environmental Governance
WCEL Member Yann Aguila and Professor Marie-Cécile de Bellis recently co-wrote the article "A Martian at the United Nations or Naive Thoughts on Global Environmental Governance" published in the Revue de Droit européen. The following synopsis was prepared by Yann Aguila.
Story | 31 Mar, 2021
New WHO-IUCN Expert Working Group on Biodiversity, Climate, One Health and Nature-based Solutions
Under the umbrella of the Friends of EbA (FEBA) network, leading experts engaged in the science-policy interface of public health, biodiversity, and climate change will collaborate in an innovative initiative led by the WHO and IUCN to help guide…
Story | 26 Mar, 2021
New Report on Scientific Blueprint for Tackling Earth's Eco-Emergencies
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recently released the synthesis report "Making Peace With Nature: A scientific blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies" ahead of the fith United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5).
Story | 25 Mar, 2021
Blockchain for forest landscape restoration: FLRchain marries two brilliant concepts
Were those trees actually planted? IUCN has teamed up with Gaiachain to develop FLRchain – a blockchain-based application to follow forest landscape restoration implementation through a verifiable ledger system that traces transactions from funding…
Story | 24 Mar, 2021
Launch of the Global Fund for Ecosystem-based Adaptation
Ecosystem-based Adaptation harnesses the power of nature to increase the resilience of communities against the escalating impacts of climate change. By providing rapid and targeted financial support to innovative and catalytic projects, the Global…
Story | 19 Mar, 2021
Climate Equity or Climate Justice? More than a question of terminology
By Rosa Manzo - Equity is a central element to the climate change problem, it corresponds to the complexity of the problem and it attempts to address the inherent unfairness of the problem: it is multifaceted by addressing several issues. A call for an equitable climate change regime ties…
Story | 18 Mar, 2021
Viet Nam develops action plan on reducing plastic waste of fisheries sector
On 5 February 2021, the Viet Nam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) issued the Decision 687/QD-BNN-TCTS to approve the action plan on marine plastic waste management in the fisheries sector (2020 – 2030). The Decision has received high appreciation from relevant stakeholders as…