Position paper | 2022
IUCN Position Paper for CITES COP19
IUCN presents views and recommendations on selected issues and agenda items of COP19 for Parties’ consideration.
Prise de position | 2022
Document de position de l’UICN pour la COP27 de la CCNUCC
La COP27 de la CCNUCC se tient dans un contexte mondial considérablement agité, des difficultés économiques croissantes et une insécurité alimentaire et énergétique aggravant les effets d’une pandémie toujours en cours. Pourtant, comme l’illustrent les événements météorologiques extrêmes de 2022…
Documento de posición | 2022
Documento de posición de la UICN para la COP27 de la CMNUCC
La COP27 de la CMNUCC se está llevando a cabo en un momento de considerable agitación mundial, con crecientes dificultades económicas, con una inseguridad alimentaria y energética empeorando los efectos de una pandemia aún en curso. Sin embargo, como lo demuestran los fenómenos meteorológicos…
Position paper | 2022
IUCN position paper for UNFCCC COP27
UNFCCC COP27 is taking place at a time of considerable global turmoil, with growing economic hardship and food and energy insecurity worsening the effects of a still ongoing pandemic. Yet, as the extreme weather events of 2022 – catastrophic floods, droughts and hurricanes – illustrate, the…
Conservation Tool
IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology
The IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology is a comprehensive classification framework for Earth’s ecosystems that integrates their functional and compositional features. This new typology helps identify the ecosystems that are most critical for…
Conservation Tool
The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems is a tool to assess the conservation status of ecosystems. It is based on scientific criteria for performing evidence-based analyses of the risk of ecosystem collapse, including changes in geographical distribution and the degradation of the key elements of…
File
Harnessing Nature to Build Climate Resilience: Scaling Up the Use of Ecosystem-based Adaptation
UNEP summary report
File | 2016
Helping nature help us Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
With the increasing threats that disasters present particularly in the light of climate change, there is an urgent need to prioritise proactive disaster risk reduction over reacting to disaster events.
File | 2019
Core principles for successfully implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions
Despite substantial increases in the scope and magnitude of biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration, there remains ongoing degradation of natural resources that adversely affects both biodiversity and human wellbeing.
File | 2022
Climate change is here, and the impacts we are already being seen around the world, from higher temperatures, rising sea levels, more frequent and intense droughts, floods, and wildfires, and increasing climate variability. For people and society, adaptation to climate change means not only…