Story | 17 Mar, 2022
Conservation is becoming more dangerous: increasing violations and threats
CEESP News: Liliana Jauregui, Senior Expert Environmental Justice, IUCN NL
Last week, IUCN and the University of Geneva launched a report on the status of environmental civic spaces. The report paints a bleak picture: nature conservation NGOs are faced with shrinking civic spaces,…
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
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 | 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
50 million Euros to seed new Nature for Health Trust Fund for Pandemic Prevention
IUCN, together with partners, look forward to implementing this new Fund to help countries achieve more holistic policymaking by creating further evidence of the links between biodiversity, climate and health, and support decision makers and relevant actors to take measures…
Story | 24 Feb, 2022
Aquaculture and Nature-based Solutions: new report
A new report from the AquaCoCo project works to identify synergies between sustainable development of coastal communities, aquaculture, and marine and coastal conservation. It examines the emerging concept of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and the IUCN Global Standard for NbS when applied to…
Page | 04 Feb, 2022
Since 1972, IUCN is the official advisor on nature under the World Heritage Convention. The Convention is known as "the most widely accepted international conservation treaty in human history”, ratified today by 195 States Parties. Natural World Heritage sites conserve the planet’s most…