Artículo | 26 Apr, 2022
Organizaciones del altiplano guatemalteco catalizarán la acción climática en 2,400 hectáreas
El Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN) de Guatemala, como Presidente del Comité Directivo del Proyecto Altiplano Resiliente (Fortalecimiento de la resiliencia de los medios de vida ante el cambio climático en las cuencas altas del Altiplano de Guatemala), llevó a cabo un…
Artículo | 18 Apr, 2022
La alianza entre UICN y SE-CAC busca regenerar la biodiversidad en tierras agrícolas
La agricultura es una actividad humana vital que depende profundamente de la naturaleza. A medida que la agricultura vaya cubriendo una creciente demanda mundial de alimentos, amenazando a la naturaleza al causar la pérdida de biodiversidad y el cambio de uso de suelo…
Story | 29 Mar, 2022
The Blue Carbon Accelerator Fund (BCAF) today launches its Readiness Support call for proposals to all entrepreneurs and project developers involved in blue carbon work. Readiness Support will help project developers to get coastal blue carbon restoration projects ready for implementation and…
Story | 23 Mar, 2022
Swiss-based companies pledge to deliver 100 Nature-based Solutions by 2030
To help address the interlinked climate and biodiversity crises, SwissBiz4Nature, a multi-stakeholder initiative composed of Swiss-based businesses and organisations, plans to implement 100 Nature-based Solutions (NbS) before the end of the decade.
Story | 04 Mar, 2022
50 million Euros to seed new Nature for Health Trust Fund for Pandemic Prevention
IUCN, together with partners, look forward to implementing this new Fund to help countries achieve more holistic policymaking by creating further evidence of the links between biodiversity, climate and health, and support decision makers and relevant actors to take measures…
Story | 03 Mar, 2022
The 6th IPCC Report and what it means for cities
As the latest climate report was released this week, the messaging couldn’t have been more dire. The report states that the world faces ‘multiple climate hazards over the next two decades, some of which will be irreversible’. The UN Secretary-…
Artículo | 24 Feb, 2022
La cooperación en materia de aguas transfronterizas
Cuando hablamos del Objetivo de Desarrollo 6, pensamos en la disponibilidad de agua para consumo, higiene y saneamiento. No obstante, la gestión del agua para el desarrollo sostenible va más allá: la meta 6.5.2 está centrada en la cooperación…
Story | 24 Feb, 2022
Transitioning to sustainable food systems is vital to staying within planetary boundaries, feeding a growing population and combatting climate change. Today IUCN launched SUSTAIN Pro, a 10-year initiative aimed at addressing livelihood inequality, ecosystem degradation and agricultural…
Story | 24 Feb, 2022
Aquaculture and Nature-based Solutions: new report
A new report from the AquaCoCo project works to identify synergies between sustainable development of coastal communities, aquaculture, and marine and coastal conservation. It examines the emerging concept of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and the IUCN Global Standard for NbS when applied to…
Publication | 2022
Aquaculture and Nature-based Solutions
Aquaculture production has very significantly increased in tonnage and value over the last decades. It is seen as a potential solution to replace the declining wild fishery stocks. This publication is a first attempt to examine aquaculture systems within the recent framework of the IUCN Global…