Issues brief
Gender-based violence and the environment
Podcast | 2022
This podcast series tackles opportunities around investing for Ocean Impact. When it comes to tackling climate change and the biodiversity crisis, the ocean and the world’s coastlines offer many solutions.
Yet these solutions don’t receive anywhere near enough money to…
Story | 09 Mar, 2022
UNEA Resolution - ‘End Plastic Pollution’ - and IUCN role in implementation of the Treaty
The new UNEA Resolution, ‘End Plastic Pollution: Towards a legally binding instrument’, establishes an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee that will develop the specific content of the new plastic pollution treaty with the aim of completing its work by the end…
Other brief | 2017
An introduction to ocean acidification
The oceans have absorbed between 24% and 33% of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions during the past five decades. While this uptake provides a valuable service to human societies by moderating the rate and severity of climate change, it comes at a cost for the oceans. The massive input…
Story | 08 Mar, 2022
Ocean Law Specialist Group contributed to U.K. House of Lords inquiry
The IUCN-WCEL’s Ocean Law Specialist Group submitted written evidence in response to a recent inquiry convened by the U.K. House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee entitled “UNCLOS: The law of the sea in the 21st century”.
Story | 08 Mar, 2022
Meet inspiring PANORAMA Solution Providers: Frédéric Bachet, Le Parc Marin de la Côte Bleue, France
Frédéric Bachet is a former Director of the Parc Marin de la Côte Bleue (Cote Bleue Marine Park) and member of the IUCN French Committee’s Commission on Protected Areas. He is joined in this conversation by Cécile Fattebert of the IUCN Protected and Conserved Areas team.
Story | 08 Mar, 2022
The sub-regional meeting dedicated to the Alboran Sea, organised in Malaga by IUCN-Med, connected conservation organizations from both sides of the Mediterranean, with the aim of exchanging the latest data and findings on the conservation of marine biodiversity in the region and its relationship…
Story | 08 Mar, 2022
Consultation on draft guidance for reducing disease risks in protected and conserved areas
The IUCN (Protected and Conserved Areas Team), SSC Wildlife Health Specialist Group and EcoHealth Alliance invite input to support zoonotic and wildlife disease prevention, detection, response, and recovery as part of protected and conserved area management.
Story | 04 Mar, 2022
High Seas: Time to be Bold, Visionary and Pragmatic for the Benefit of Humankind and the Ocean
In time for the resumption of the IGC4 (the Intergovernmental Conference on an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) this month, IUCN is releasing a report that aims to guide decision makers on the important topic of establishing area…
Story | 04 Mar, 2022
BIOPAMA launches Calls for Proposals for 2022 grants
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Calls for Proposals for the latest BIOPAMA Action Component grants.
The BIOPAMA Action Component is a 21-million-Euro grant-making facility managed by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) in the frame of the BIOPAMA (…