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The Plastic Leak Project interview - businesses now have a tool to reduce plastic leakage across entire value chains
31.01.2022
An interview with Quantis, EA, and IUCN, some of the people behind the the Plastic Leak Project (PLP). They discuss how growing urgency and awareness around the issue of plastic leakage into the environment is driving companies and public authorities to...
Photo: Floating rice in Long An Province © IUCN Viet Nam

Testing floating rice in the Mekong Delta
28.01.2022
Starting in 2011, IUCN worked with the Royal Netherlands Embassy, World Bank, and GIZ to argue against the third rice crop in the Mekong Delta, which had major negative impacts: flood and drought risks were increasing, land was subsiding, capture fisheries...
Photo: Dr. Dindo (second from the left) and Mr. Aidan (second from the right) attended the MOU signing ceremony© INSEE

Siam City Cement Group and IUCN Continue Partnership to Support SCCC Group’s Sustainability Ambition 2030 and Biodiversity Conservation in Asia
10.01.2022
Bangkok, Thailand, 13 December 2021: Siam City Cement Group (SCCC Group) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) extended their partnership for another three years at a signing ceremony of their new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to...