News
A strong IUCN delegation is attending this year’s meeting. Check here for the latest news reported directly from Nairobi and keep up to date with the most important developments of the conference.
Water for nature, water for people
Water, biodiversity and livelihoods are directly linked and we cannot look at them separately. Dr Emmanuel Mwendera, Water Programme Coordinator from IUCN’s Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office, explains how IUCN is working to make sure that water resources are managed in a sustainable manner – both for the benefit of the environment and for the benefit of local communities. …
14 May 2010 | Audio
A drop of life
Water is the most important natural resource on the planet. It is central to sustainable development and achieving water security, in the face of global over-use of water and climate change, is one of the highest environment issues on the political, business and public agendas. But how can we ensure that water is managed in a sustainable manner? An event during the Fourteenth Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) in Nairobi, attended by members of the IUCN delegation, has put forward some important solutions to this ever growing problem. …
14 May 2010 | News story
Protected Areas under Nairobi spotlight
Protected Areas capture the breadth of the planet's biodiversity. They've been the focus of talks during the first few days of a conference in Nairobi which aims to ensure that work carried out under the Convention on Biological Diversity has a sound scientific base. Nikita Lopoukhine, Chair of IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas, looks at the progress on Protected Areas. …
12 May 2010 | Audio
Governments to debate planet "bailout"
Never has the world faced a more pressing crisis than the current loss of biodiversity, which affects every man, woman and child. The gap between the pressure on our natural resources and governments’ response to the deterioration is widening. IUCN is calling for governments to come up with a “bailout plan,” a 10-year strategy that will help countries halt and reverse this loss. …
06 May 2010 | International news release
