Story | 22 May, 2024
Volunteers fill the gap for nature education in Southern China
“An ordinary bird became extraordinary.” Xiaoyan, a 26-year-old volunteer in Guanzhou, China, still remembers the time when she first looked through her teacher’s spotting scope at a kingfisher, whose blue feathers looked like “its body was inlaid with sapphires.” That moment, when she was just 1
Story | 23 May, 2024
Oceania Nature-based Solutions guided by IUCN Global Standard: Mr. Singh sheds light
Facing environmental challenges head-on, Pacific Island nations are embracing a resilient approach: Nature-based Solutions (NbS). This strategy uses the power of nature itself to address pressing issues like climate change and biodiversity loss. But how can these solutions be implemented…
Story | 21 May, 2024
The recent IUCN Mesoamerican Regional Conservation Forum (Mexico City, April 16-19, 2024) served as an important platform for collective dialogue and collaboration to shape the future course of conservation efforts in the Mesoamerican region. Bringing together a diverse range of members and…
Issues brief
Project | 25 Sep, 2016 - 24 Mar, 2023
Promoting Ecosystem based Adaptation through Friends of Ecosystem based Adaptation (FEBA)
FEBAis a global collaborative network of 100+ organizations with a shared interest in advancing awareness, understanding and uptake of nature-based solutions in adaptation and resilience efforts and planning processes around the world. FEBA convenes the global adaptation community around expert…
Project | 01 Jun, 2017 - 30 Nov, 2022
Project | 31 Dec, 2020 - 30 Jun, 2028
Global Fund to Support the Implementation and Upscaling of Ecosystem-based Adaptation
The Global EbA Fund provides targeted and rapid support through seed capital for innovative approaches to ecosystem-based adaptation. The Fund aims to encourage catalytic initiatives to help overcome barriers for upscaling EbA, address the gaps in knowledge and planning for EbA, as well as to…
Project | 01 Nov, 2019 - 31 Jul, 2024
Nature-based Solutions for Resilient Societies in the Western Balkans
Position paper | 2024
IUCN Position paper for CBD SBSTTA26
IUCN presents views and recommendations for different SBSTTA26 agenda items.