Story | 29 Apr, 2024
Mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions and Land Health Monitoring for agriculture in India
Between 14 and 15 March 2024, IUCN India organised a knowledge and experience sharing workshop on ‘Mainstreaming Nature/Ecosystem-based solutions and Land Health Monitoring Framework in Agriculture’ in New Delhi. The workshop aimed to introduce IUCN’s Nature-based Solutions (NbS)…
Grey literature | 2021
This report is a consolidation of in-country data gathered during 2020 in three Caribbean countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, and St. Lucia. For the purpose of this report, all regional data analysis is based on these countries only. Data collection encompassed three sectors — household and…
Factsheet | 2023
Economic Impact of Plastic Pollution in Antigua and Barbuda, Caribbean
In 2019 with Norad support, IUCN launched the Plastic Waste Free Islands (PWFI) project, aiming to reduce plastic waste generation and leakage into the ocean in island nations in the Pacific and Caribbean regions.
Story | 07 Aug, 2023
Youth Empowerment in Watershed Management in Jharkhand, India
Sujit Choudhury, Secretary Integrated River Basin Management Society
Story | 07 Aug, 2023
Youth Climate Conclave (YCC): Youth’s Commitment to Promote ‘Sustainable Lifestyle’
Ms. Monmi Barua, Associate Fellow, Environment Education Awareness (EEA), TERI; Dr. Livleen K Kahlon, Associate Director and Senior Fellow, EEA, TERI; Ms. Taru Mehta, Area Convener and Fellow, EEA, TERI
Factsheet | 2023
AFRIPAC Plastics Pollution: Effective Capacity Building for Global Plastics Treaty in Africa
This is a one-page overview of the AFRIPAC project: Effective Capacity Building for Global Plastics Treaty in Africa. This project is in partnership with GRID-Arendal and is generously supported by NORAD.
Story | 29 Mar, 2023
AFRIPAC: strengthening 5 countries' commitments to a UN Plastics Treaty
As the world moves towards an international, legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, IUCN and GRID-Arendal partner in a new project: AFRIPAC, "Effective Plastic Treaty Capacity Building for Africa." This project aims to empower five African nations´ negotiating skills for a strong…
Grey literature | 2023
Plastic Waste Free Islands Gender Study
To inform gender-responsive programming for the Plastic Waste Free Islands project, IUCN commissioned a study to provide an analysis of plastic pollution in the tourism, waste management, and fisheries sectors of the PWFI islands in the Caribbean (Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, and Saint Lucia)…
Story | 16 Mar, 2023
A new report from the IUCN Plastic Waste Free Islands project answers the question, “What are key human rights issues arising from plastic pollution in the tourism, fisheries, and waste management sectors in the PWFI islands and how do these issues impact men and women differently?”
Story | 16 Mar, 2023
From cleaner oceans to thriving communities: the economic impacts of plastic pollution
With support from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), the Plastic Waste Free Islands project focused on six islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean regions: Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, and Saint Lucia. Three new economic briefs for the Caribbean,…