Story | 25 Jan, 2017
IUCN, under the framework of Mangroves for the Future (MFF) and in collaboration with Quang Nam Provincial People’s Committee and Da Nang City People’s Committee, organised a high level round-table discussion on "Integrated watershed and coastal management in Vu Gia – Thu Bon River Basin and…
Story | 20 Jan, 2017
Mangroves for the Future (MFF) supports Integrated Costal Management capacity development in Myanmar
A Knowledge and Information Sharing Workshop on Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) Training and Academic courses in Myanmar was jointly organized by the Forest Department, Mangrove for the Future (MFF), and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at Summit Parkview hotel in Yangon…
Story | 17 Jan, 2017
Blog: Could Trump create water risks for businesses he wants to protect?
By Peter Newborne and James Dalton.
As we wait to see if President-elect Donald Trump upholds his campaign pledge to tear up the Paris climate change agreement, one of his close to home constituencies is already struggling on the frontline of the climate struggle.
CEO’s who may…
Story | 09 Jan, 2017
Tomorrow's production systems will be closer to nature
This blog by Gerard Bos was first published by the World Economic Forum on 3 January 2017.
The global economy has been a steady engine of growth for nearly six decades, and during this time there have been a number of positive advances for humankind. But the fourth industrial revolution…
Story | 17 Dec, 2016
UN Biodiversity Conference 2016: Compromise with a pinch of salt
With less than four years remaining to implement the biodiversity plan agreed by world governments in 2010, IUCN calls for continued efforts to achieve the Aichi biodiversity conservation targets, as the UN biodiversity conference closes in Cancún, Mexico. IUCN stresses that while progress has…
Story | 07 Dec, 2016
How can changes in agriculture help protect the global commons?
How do the ways that the world grows its food affect the environmental systems that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system, our global commons?
As we push these systems to their limits, how can major shifts in agriculture help bring them back from the brink?
Story | 06 Dec, 2016
IUCN President and Vice President address key conservation issues during recent visit to Thailand
IUCN President Mr Zhang Xinsheng and IUCN Vice President Mr Malik Amin Aslam visited Bangkok, Thailand from November 22 to 24. The trip highlighted IUCN’s ongoing commitment to supporting governments and civil society organizations further conservation and sustainable development efforts in…
Speech | 05 Dec, 2016
IUCN addresses CBD CoP 13 on the urgency of increasing efforts to protect biodiversity
Today, IUCN Director General Inger Andersen delivered the following statement to the Thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD CoP13) in Cancun, Mexico. In the statement, IUCN urges Parties to the convention to step up efforts to…
Story | 02 Dec, 2016
Tackling wildlife trafficking through the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Recognising the significant and detrimental economic, environmental, security-related, and social impacts of the illegal trade in wildlife, 42 countries adopted the Hanoi Statement on Illegal Wildlife Trade on 17 November 2016. The Statement that was adopted at the Hanoi Conference on illegal…
Story | 01 Dec, 2016
Forests on the agenda at Convention on Biological Diversity COP13
IUCN will take part in the Thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cancun, Mexico from 4 - 17 December 2016. Forests are high on the agenda, as one of the four main focus areas from the CBD.