Position paper | 2023
IUCN position paper for UNFCCC COP28
The synthesis report of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6), released in March this year, has brought into sharp focus the irreversible losses and damages that are presently accruing from climate change, as well as the cascading and compounding…
Other brief | 2023
Sports for Nature Framework Information Pack
While there is an urgent need to act across all parts of society, sports have a unique opportunity to address the nature crisis. IUCN has been working with key partners on developing a Sports for Nature Framework to contribute to global efforts to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 by…
Grey literature
IUCN World Heritage Strategy: New ambition for World Heritage
IUCN’s new World Heritage Strategy focuses on supporting the World Heritage Convention, and current and potential World Heritage sites, to make the greatest conservation impact, including maximising their contribution to the achievement of global goals for nature conservation, to 2030 and beyond…
Grey literature | 2023
This guide is about how to plan and implement the new global target for effectively and equitably conserving at least 30% of the Earth by 2030. The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), adopted by Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in December 2022, includes Target 3, the “30x30”…
Brochure
Conserving Natural Capital and Enhancing Collaborative Management of Transboundary Resources in East Africa (CONNECT) is a project, funded by USAID, which aims to strengthen the conservation and management of natural resources shared by East African countries including wildlife and landscapes…
Jointly published | 2023
IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress Report
The agenda-setting IUCN Congress on ‘Africa Protected and Conserved Areas’ (APAC) that took place in Kigali in July 2022 was historic in nature, being the first such international congress held on the African continent.
Brochure | 2023
IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office
IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environment organisation that has been finding pragmatic solutions to the most pressing environment and development challenges in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Working through over 100 members in the region (and more than 1,400 members…
Brochure | 2021
The Great Blue Wall Initiative
The “Great Blue Wall” (GBW) initiative, endorsed by the World Conservation Congress in 2021, and then subsequently launched at UNFCCC COP26 in Glasgow, is a major Africa-led effort toward a nature-positive world. Under the Great Blue Wall, proponents aim to create interconnected protected and…
Brochure | 2023
IUCN Rwanda Country Office Brochure
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) opened an office in Rwanda in 2016 to support the Government of Rwanda in achieving its overall conservation and development objectives. Since then, it has implemented projects that have contributed to Rwanda’s national policies and…