News | 01 Feb, 2023
The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) adopted by the Parties at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) celebrated in Montreal, Canada in December 2022, acknowledges the importance of developing a communication and outreach strategy to implement the GBF. The IUCN Commission on Education and…
News | 01 Feb, 2023
CMS VATAVARAN Festival & Forum on Climate Action and Biodiversity Conservation celebrated in Bhutan
From 2-7 November 2022, the Centre for Media Studies (CMS) in collaboration with the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC) and Canadian High Commission to India, Bhutan & Nepal organized the first-ever Festival and Forum on Climate Action and Biodiversity Conservation …
Story | 31 Jan, 2023
Judging complex societal change processes is made easier with new guidelines to assess contributions. An important contribution claim begins with the question, “How and why has the intervention made a difference, or not?”
Press release | 16 Dec, 2022
Sports organisations commit to safeguard nature under new framework
Montreal, Canada, 16 December 2022 – More than twenty sports organisations, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a founding partner, and the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, signed the first-ever Sports for Nature Framework today. Signatories pledge to adhere to…
Story | 07 Dec, 2022
Connecting children’s human rights and a healthy ocean
CEESP News: Elisa Morgera, Professor of Global Environmental Law and the Director of the UKRI GCRF One Ocean Hub and IUCN CEESP member, & Senia Febrica, Knowledge Exchange Associate, One Ocean Hub.
IUCN event
The session will showcase the role of equitably and effectively managed protected and conserved areas in addressing pandemic risk associated with loss of diversity and in supporting wildlife and human health.
IUCN event
Unveiling the first Nature 4 Health investments for preventing pandemics together
A Nature for Health Trust Fund was established to help countries develop more holistic, and coordinated policies by generating and disseminating further evidence on the links between biodiversity, climate and health. On this occasion, the list of countries that will benefit from the first phase…
IUCN event
Sports for Nature: A new pathway for sports to achieve nature-positive action
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, along with IUCN and the United Nations Environment Programme, and support from the International Olympic Committee, will launch the first-ever Sports for Nature Framework, aimed at engaging sports organisations on nature.
IUCN event
Nature-based Solutions for Health
A new WHO-IUCN guidance will be launched at this event for biodiversity policymakers on the integration of health and Nature-based Solutions, laying out concrete actions to protect biodiversity, nature and ecosystem health.
Story | 22 Nov, 2022
Located in Phang-nga province in the south of Thailand. Koh Yao is a dream destination for many travellers as it consists of pristine beaches, unspoilt coastline, rice fields, mountains, and forests. However, it is not surprising that the other side of island might be an unsightly image.