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Rivers are Connected. Actions to Protect Them Must Be Connected Too
The health of freshwater systems is core to the health of surrounding landscapes — but not nearly enough is being done to ...
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IUCN Director General's statement on COP16 of the Convention on Biological Diversity
COP16 has made its mark. Hailed as the biggest biodiversity COP ever, with a record number of delegates (around 23,000), a High-level Segment attended by six Heads of State, more than 130 Ministers ...
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Prestigious Law and Diplomacy award recognises Kristina Gjerde, IUCN High Seas Advisor, for landmark work to protect high seas biodiversity
The work of Singapore’s Ambassador for International Law, Rena Lee, and Kristina Gjerde, Senior High Seas Advisor to IUCN, was recognised and celebrated at a ceremony in New York City on October 24, ...
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IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions : first edition
The IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions lists the Criteria and Indicators, as adopted by the 98th Meeting of the IUCN Council in 2020.
International Union for Conservation of Nature1d
ALMURUNA - Building Climate Resilience Through Enhance Water Security in MENA Region
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the most water-scarce region in the world. Throughout the MENA region both surface and groundwater resources are under pressure and over exploited because of ...
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DYNAMIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPROACH FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CLIMATE RESILIENT ADAPTATION PACKAGES IN EUROPEAN REGIONS
Climate Impetus has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101037084 IMPETUS will develop and validate at large scale a ...
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Harold Jefferson Coolidge Memorial Medal
Harold Jefferson Coolidge, born in Boston in 1904, was one of the founders of IUCN, a former president of the Union and its principal fundraiser from 1948 to the 1980s. He founded and chaired the ...
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Water as a human right
Formally acknowledging water as a human right could encourage the international community and governments to enhance their efforts to satisfy basic human needs and to meet the Millennium Development ...
International Union for Conservation of Nature1d
Guidelines on the conservation of medicinal plants
Eighty per cent of the world's population depends on traditional medicine for its primary health care needs, a system of medicine in which most of the drugs and cures used come from plants. Yet many ...
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Protected planet report 2018
The Protected Planet Report 2018 provides an update of progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 at the global scale. With two years to go until 2020, the Protected Planet Report 2018 confirms ...
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IUCN CEESP Governance, Equity and Rights Thematic Group
The Theme for Governance, Equity and Rights (TGER) engages its diverse membership to learn from and share field-based experience and knowledge, enhance capacity recognition and capacity building ...
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Planet on the move: Reimagining conservation at the intersection of migration, environmental change and conflict
“. . . I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing . . .” ...