IUCN event
Financing the climate-biodiversity nexus: Enhancing the GCF and GEF complementarity
The GEF–GCF long-term vision aims to spearhead a new, ambitious common approach to tackle both climate change and biodiversity loss head-on. This joint event aims to identify solutions for optimizing the partnership between the GEF and GCF to finance and implement climate action and biodiversity...
News | 16 Nov, 2022
IUCN and TCP Viet Nam collaborate on EPR to support the circular economy
MONRE led the revision of Law on Environmental Protection (LEP), which was approved by the National Assembly in December 2020. The LEP’s Articles 54-55 provide the legal basis for Extended Producer Responsibilities (EPR), initially for six sectors: packaging, electrical goods, tires, batteries,...
Grey literature
Promoting Biodiversity Net Gain in Western Australia
There is a growing awareness among governments and the private sector that conservation and development need to go hand in hand. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) promotes the mitigation hierarchy approach with a net gain target for biodiversity in all landscape planning. By...
Grey literature
IUCN Review Protocol for Biodiversity Net Gain
IUCN Review Protocol for Biodiversity Net Gain would not have been possible without the experience gained from working with Rio Tinto, which piloted the application of a Net Positive Impact (NPI) approach at several sites from 2011-2014. This work also builds on a two-year collaborative effort...
News | 11 Nov, 2022
Feeding the world in a changing climate
Egypt's dependency on food imports meant it was hit hard by the war in Ukraine. However, efforts to ramp up national food production are under threat from climate change and intensive farming practices.
Press release | 09 Nov, 2022
Bangkok, Thailand, 10 November 2022 (IUCN Asia Regional Office) – Without urgent and coordinated responses across the region, the fate of wetlands, their dependent species and the overall well-being of almost 250 million people will be further compromised, according to the Indo-Burma...