Project | 27 Dec, 2016 - 31 Mar, 2023
The work area of the Amazon 2.0 project is implemented in: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Suriname. Its mission is to strengthen forest governance models in indigenous and peasant territories of the Amazon biome.
Project | 01 Nov, 2019 - 31 Jul, 2024
Nature-based Solutions for Resilient Societies in the Western Balkans
Project | 01 Jan, 2019 - 31 May, 2022
Building River Dialogue and Governance - Phase 4
BRIDGE promotes cooperation and water diplomacy in the 9 transboundary basins between Ecuador and Peru, and in the Titicaca basin, shared between Bolivia and Peru.
Story | 11 Jan, 2022
UNESCO declares world’s first 5-country biosphere reserve along Mura-Drava-Danube
Stretching across Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia, the world’s first 5-country biosphere reserve, which has been declared by UNESCO in September 2021 covers 700 km of the Mura, Drava and Danube rivers and a total area of almost 1 million hectares in the so-called ‘Amazon of Europe…
Story | 12 Oct, 2021
The Bonn Challenge/ECCA30 initiative welcomes three new pledges from the region
Three new regional Bonn Challenge pledges were announced today at the Ministerial Meeting on Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) and the ECCA30/Bonn Challenge in Eastern and South-East Europe organised by FAO and UNECE, in cooperation with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN…
Story | 25 Feb, 2021
IUCN MARPLASTICCs project Provides Institutional Frameworks Governing Marine Plastic Pollution to understand marine plastic pollution and Extended Producer Responsibility in Asia and Africa
Story | 04 Aug, 2020
Guidelines target plastic pollution hotspots
From promoting innovative eco-design to banning the use of single-use plastic straws, efforts to curb plastic pollution are as ubiquitous as plastic itself. However, the problem is not going away. It is time to adopt a new strategy.
Story | 15 Jul, 2020
IUCN’s Marine Plastics and Coastal Communities (MARPLASTICCs) initiative rolled out a series of national workshops in Thailand, Viet Nam, South Africa, Kenya, and Mozambique from December 2019 to March 2020. The workshops kicked-off the pilot testing of IUCN-UNEP National Guidance for Plastic…
Story | 05 Jun, 2020
The newest CEC product is about a little girl named Tara who befriended a Magic Tree that helps her fighting for a cleaner planet