Information brief | 2023
INC-3 Negotiator Briefing 1 of 10 Key Elements of a Plastics Treaty
Briefing 1 of 10: Key Elements for a Plastic Pollution Treaty, including key messages for negotiators.
Information brief | 2023
Compilation of IUCN WCEL Briefings for Negotiators for INC-3
In 2022, the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) created the Plastic Pollution Task Force to provide insights and support to the Treaty negotiation process. The following series of ten targeted legal briefs are part of the IUCN Submission for the third Intergovernmental Negotiating…
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Third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution (INC-3)
The third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-3), is scheduled to take place from 13 to 19 November 2023 at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters in…
Ficha técnica | 2023
AFRIPAC: Desarrollo efectivo de capacidades en África para el Tratado Mundial sobre Plásticos
Objetivos del proyecto: Empoderar y aumentar el conocimiento y la capacidad de los negociadores, así como la colaboración en Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Santo Tomé y Príncipe, Senegal y Sierra Leona para que el Comité Intergubernamental de Negociación desarrolle un instrumento internacional…
Jointly published | 2023
International policy framework for blue carbon ecosystems
Coastal blue carbon ecosystems, including mangroves, seagrasses and tidal marshes, are some of the most carbon-rich ecosystems on Earth, and are vital to mitigating the impacts of climate change. They are also critical for coastal biodiversity, food security, livelihoods and human well-being, in…
News | 13 Jul, 2023
In the sidelines of the 10th OECS Council of Ministers Meeting on Environmental Sustainability, Mrs. Úrsula Parrilla, Regional Director for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Mr. Didacus Jules (PhD), Director General of the…
Information brief | 2023
IUCN key messages for International Seabed Authority, July 2023
IUCN Key messages for the twenty-eighth session of the Council (Part II) and the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), Kingston, Jamaica.
Council: 10 - 21 July Assembly: 24 - 28 July 2023
Blog | 19 Jul, 2023
Arrecifes de coral resilientes en las Islas Galápagos
En el pasado, las Islas Galápagos albergaban algunos de los arrecifes más ricos del Pacífico Oriental. Durante el evento de El Niño de 1982, 16 de las 17 colonias únicas de corales estructurales que allí existían murieron a causa del calentamiento excesivo de las aguas. La Fundación de…
Page | 06 Jul, 2023
A legally binding agreement – but what next?
Minna Epps, head of IUCN Ocean, takes us behind the scenes of the historic UN High Seas Treaty, and explains what needs to happen next for it to be put into action
Blog | 20 Jun, 2023
La UICN, Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza, celebra la adopción por consenso del Tratado de Biodiversidad de Alta Mar* el 19 de junio en Nueva York, por todos los Estados miembros de las Naciones Unidas, y analiza lo qué debe suceder a continuación…