IUCN event
Interactive Dialogue - Water for Climate, Resilience and Environment
The interactive dialogue is one of five, which are a key part of the official Programme of the UN Water Conference. It will explore the current status, challenges and opportunities for progress, including transformative solutions, related to the interlinkages between water, climate resilience…
Story | 27 Apr, 2023
Urgent action is needed to conserve the endangered intertidal zone and associated habitats along the Yellow and Bohai Seas, with populations of globally threatened and near threatened waterbird species continuing to decline, according to IUCN’s new report titled …
Story | 03 Mar, 2023
The problem that has no name: Gender, climate migration, and the case of Israel
Dr. Hadas Cohen, Visiting Assistant Professor and Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at the Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israeli Studies, University of Oklahoma
Israel, a climate change hot spot, is preparing for global warming. The government is aware…
Story | 03 Mar, 2023
Towards a systematic approach: Women, climate change and mobility
Cristina Dragomir, Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University
In the current climate crisis women and girls are often described as perpetual victims and/or leaders of addressing emerging issues. While this approach is important in addressing gendered inequalities…
Story | 03 Mar, 2023
Members of the Harmattan Theater activate ecological awareness through performance
May Joseph, Founder, Harmattan Theater, Professor of Social Science, Pratt Institute
Women and Children are some of the most vulnerable demographics affected by climate change displacement. The work of the environmental company…
Webinar
Upcoming webinar on the new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
The New Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: How the global community negotiated an ambitious plan to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030
Blog | 28 Feb, 2023
Meet Nyiransabimana Alice, AREECA project beneficiary from Nyagatare District
Nyiransabimana Alice, a farmer in her early 40s lives with her husband and four children in the Rwimiyaga sector in Nyagatare District. The family loves farming and taking care of their cattle.
Alice, who lost several harvests to climate change-related effects, is now a…
Story | 01 Feb, 2023
SADC TFCA Financing Facility - stories from the front lines
The year 2022 brought hope for recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time since the establishment of the Facility in 2020, travel opened up across borders, increasing momentum for the implementation of projects in Transfrontier Conservation Areas, including the TFCA Financing…
Story | 26 Jan, 2023
Meet the Pollinator Expert: Axel Hochkirch
In this edition of “Meet the Expert”, we introduce Prof. Dr. Axel Hochkirch, Chair of the IUCN SSC Invertebrate Conservation Committee and associate professor in the Biogeography department at Trier University in Germany.
Blog | 13 Jan, 2023
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Rwanda Forestry Authority (RFA), and other partners was awarded by the Board of Director of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) a funding for implementing the “Transforming Eastern Province…