Story | 22 Dec, 2020
Supportive policies are key to forest landscape restoration
Experience has shown that for forest landscape restoration (FLR) to be successful, it needs to be supported by policies that incentivize, facilitate and mobilize the implementation of FLR. This IUCN brief describes a range of FLR-supportive policies, complemented by…
Story | 14 Dec, 2020
5th International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5) is on, new dates announced.
The new dates for IMPAC5, Vancouver, Canada, have been announced: 3-9 February, 2023. Co-hosts IUCN and the Canadian Government, together with the international committee for IMPAC5, invite you to prepare.
Story | 07 Dec, 2020
Mapping global impacts for all vegetable oils key to sustainability: IUCN study
Gland, 07.12.2020 (IUCN) - A lack of data on the environmental and social impacts of vegetable oil crops stands in the way of informed discussions about their relative sustainability, a new study by members of the IUCN’s Palm Oil Task Force finds. More accurate, high-resolution…
Story | 04 Nov, 2020
Nature+ Accelerator Fund ready for investors
IUCN and partners launch novel fund to drive investment to nature-based solutions
Story | 03 Nov, 2020
IUCN is pleased to announce that it joins the Ocean Risk and Resilience Alliance (ORRAA) as a full member. ORRAA brings together the insurance and finance sectors, governments, non-profit organisations, and stakeholders from the Global South to pioneer finance and…
Story | 30 Oct, 2020
Moving forward on lobster fishery means addressing access and conservation
CEESP News: by Tony Charles*. Originally published on Policy Options, October 28, 2020
The situation unfolding in the Nova Scotia lobster fishery raises larger questions around who holds decision-making power over this natural resource.
Story | 22 Oct, 2020
An intense day for biodiversity: IUCN busy with the EU Green Week, and MEPs discussing on the CAP
Tuesday 21 October was a remarkably busy day for the IUCN European Regional Office, in the context of the EU Green Week 2020. EU Biodiversity Targets for Protected Areas and Nature Restoration at the top of the Agenda
Story | 14 Oct, 2020
This International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, The Friends of EbA (FEBA) network and the Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR) have published a joint paper to promote Nature-based Solutions in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. This paper…
Press release | 07 Oct, 2020
Nations fall short on biodiversity despite protected area growth – IUCN co-authored study
Gland, Switzerland, 7 October 2020 (IUCN) – National governments have fallen short on delivering conservation commitments for protected and conserved areas under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), despite the expansion in protected areas over the last decade,…
Story | 30 Sep, 2020
A 10-point Action Plan to create a circular bio-economy devoted to sustainable wellbeing
Led by the European Forest Institute, a multidisciplinary team of 25 authors worked on a 10-point Action Plan for a Circular Bioeconomy of Wellbeing; the Action Plan brings together the latest scientific insights and breakthrough…