Council endorses new IUCN Programme for 2009-2012

16 May 2007

In its 67th meeting, the IUCN Council endorsed the new IUCN Programme for 2009-2012 as a draft for consultation with members. The new Programme offers a more result-oriented framework to plan IUCN’s activities from 2009 to 2012, as Bill Jackson, IUCN Director Global Programme explained during the Programme and Policy Committee meeting.

Conservation of biodiversity has been identified as the main pillar contributing to four other thematic priority areas: climate change, energy, poverty and security, and economy and markets. The philosophy underpinning the IUCN programme is that all these areas impact on biodiversity and vice-versa: these four thematic priorities have or will have an impact on biodiversity that we need to take into account in defining global or local policies, but biodiversity can also play an important role in regard to these issues.

“The new Programme offers a more focused framework to allow us to monitor better our achievements, but also to communicate better about our work both globally and locally,” said Bill Jackson.

Now that it has been endorsed by Council, the new IUCN Programme will enter a consultation phase throughout the IUCN regions and commissions until the end of September, when the final Programme will be prepared for adoption at the 4th IUCN World Conservation Congress, to be held in Barcelona from 5-14 October 2008.

For more information, please contact Sebastià Semene Guitart at sebastia.semeneiucn.org.