Story | 03 Dec, 2020
Ecosystem-based Adaptation and Green Recovery: Building back better from COVID-19
Originally planned to be the “Super Year for Biodiversity”, 2020 has instead brought new global attention to the role biodiversity plays in securing human health, well-being and resilience – including how climate change, habitat degradation and land use changes both contribute to disease…
Press release | 02 Dec, 2020
Climate change now top threat to natural World Heritage – IUCN report
Gland, Switzerland, 2 December 2020 (IUCN) – Climate change is now the biggest threat to natural World Heritage, according to a report published today by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). A third (33%) of natural World Heritage sites are threatened by…
Story | 02 Dec, 2020
Need to streamline National REDD+ Programme Awareness across, forest communities, private sector
IUCN Pakistan in collaboration with the Ministry of Climate Change organized a Stakeholders’ Workshop for preparation of REDD+ Strategic Communications Plan in Islamabad today. The event was attended by a large number of government officials, members of the civil society, environmental experts…
Story | 01 Dec, 2020
IUCN launches the Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in Asia
On 26 November 2020, IUCN Asia Regional Office hosted the Asia Launch of the Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions (NbS), building on the global launch, held in July. Over 215 participants joined the online event, including representatives from…
Publication | 2020
Catalysing State and non-State actors for nature
In recent decades, partnerships and cooperative initiatives of state and non-state actors have been increasingly called upon by the United Nations to contribute transformative solutions to the challenges of sustainable development. Many of such initiatives strive to end hunger, mitigate climate…
Publication | 2020
IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3 builds on three cycles of Conservation Outlook Assessments undertaken since 2014. It presents the main results for 2020, but also some longer-term trends based on a comparison of three data sets now available.
Story | 27 Nov, 2020
Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy Ceremony Event
By Shannon Peters - On 12 October 2020, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University conferred the Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy in memoriam to environmental defenders who had lost their lives defending their land and the environment…
Story | 26 Nov, 2020
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Story | 26 Nov, 2020
Regional biodiversity knowledge hub launched in Eastern and Southern Africa
IUCN, RCMRD - the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, and partners have officially launched the Regional Resource Hub and one of its flagship knowledge products, the most comprehensive analysis on the state of protected areas in Eastern and Southern Africa