Story | 19 Jun, 2024
Investing for Ocean Impact podcast, Season 3: Deep Sea Mining
The ocean’s seabed harbours a range of mineral reserves containing valuable metals and compounds. But under international law these resources have been designated “the common heritage of mankind”, a designation backed up by the body responsible for both preserving and allowing their use, the…
Story | 12 Jun, 2024
BBNJ Agreement for Ocean Conservation
On this World Ocean Day, we celebrate a pivotal achievement in ocean conservation: the adoption of a new legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to address governance gaps biodiversity protection in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (…
News | 03 Jun, 2024
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Oceania Regional Director, Leituala Kuniselani Toelupe Tago, delivered a compelling address at the United Nations 4th Conference of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Antigua. Representing IUCN as the Head of Delegation, Ms. Toelupe…
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From 3 to 13 June 2024, IUCN will participate in the Bonn Climate Change Conference, which will convene the 60th session of the Subsidiary Bodies to the United Nations…
News | 30 May, 2024
IUCN Viet Nam and Hon Cau MPA are pleased to announce the call for sea turtle conservation volunteer programme 2024 in Hon Cau MPA, Binh Thuan Province.
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In Antigua and Barbuda, the international community will gather at the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States to review Small Island Developing States’ (SIDS) sustainable development progress and propose a new decade of partnerships and solutions to supercharge their…
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,…
Story | 19 Jan, 2022
WWF Travel will bring MEET ecotourism experiences to new markets
MEET Network ecotourism experiences will be sold to the Italian market through WWF Travel, building on work achieved in ENI CBC Med and Interreg Med sustainable tourism projects.
Press release | 08 Dec, 2021
Dragonflies threatened as wetlands around the world disappear - IUCN Red List
Gland, Switzerland, 9 December 2021 (IUCN) – The destruction of wetlands is driving the decline of dragonflies worldwide, according to the first global assessment of these species in today’s update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Their decline is symptomatic of the…
Story | 01 Nov, 2021
Understanding the multiple benefits of area-based conservation
CEESP News: by Nigel Dudley and Sue Stolton, Equilibrium Research *
Under current proposals from the Convention on Biological Diversity, a target is likely to be set for 30% of the world’s land surface to be set aside into protected and conserved areas. Over 60 countries have pledged to…