News | 27 Nov, 2023
New report on High Seas Biodiversity Treaty gives accessible at-a-glance introduction
This introductory report's target audience is professionals from governments, civil society, private sector, and other stakeholders who know multilateral processes and treaties but are not high seas “BBNJ (biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction) experts”. The report is more digestible than…
Story | 21 Apr, 2022
Alcoa Foundation, IUCN partner to support critical research on ecosystem restoration
PITTSBURGH, April 21, 2022—Alcoa Foundation today announced a partnership with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to investigate how ecosystem restoration projects can successfully contribute to biodiversity and community benefits under different environmental and social…
Artículo | 27 Aug, 2020
¿Está la agrobiodiversidad destinada a desaparecer?: El caso de la quinua del Altiplano Peruano
CEESP News: by CEESP member Pierina Benites Alfaro
La presión por generar productos de alto rendimiento en campo, destinados eminentemente al mercado, ha transformado la agricultura de los Andes, en particular porque dicho espacio es el centro de origen genético de muchos tubérculos y…
Story | 12 Mar, 2020
Report: Blue Infrastructure Finance, where all win
All coastal and marine ecosystems are critical to human well-being and global biodiversity. Mangroves, coral reefs, and seagrass beds are examples of these. But urban and rural infrastructure investments are having a heavy negative impact on these systems, and it is…
Story | 27 Feb, 2020
Report: Building ambition and planning ahead for the High Seas treaty
A new IUCN report gives a series of recommendations to build ambition for the new agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) under UNCLOS.
…Story | 04 Feb, 2020
The Marine Plastic Footprint report: calculating the millions of tonnes that end up in the oceans
In The Marine Plastic Footprint, Joao Sousa of IUCN introduces new measures to understand and calculate the frightening leakage of plastic into the marine environment - by following its movement through every stage from production to waste to final destination.
Three integrated case…
Story | 31 Jan, 2020
AS ÁREAS ÚMIDAS E A BIODIVERSIDADE
A biodiversidade inclui a variabilidade de cada espécie, entre espécies e dos ecossistemas. As áreas úmidas estão entre os ecossistemas mais diversos do planeta.
Artículo | 30 Jan, 2020
Los humedales y la biodiversidad
La biodiversidad comprende la variabilidad de cada especie, entre las especies y de los ecosistemas. Los humedales están entre los ecosistemas más diversos del Planeta.
Story | 28 Jun, 2019
Options for Governance and Decision-making across Scales and Sectors
CEESP News - by Dr. Marina Rosales Benites de Franco, Professor and Researcher of Federico Villarreal National University
Story | 22 Feb, 2019
IUCN joins Fortune 500 companies to address plastic leaks in their supply chains
IUCN, together with the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Life Cycle Initiative, have joined the strategic committee of a newly launched Plastic Leak Project (PLP), which aims to help…