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Forum d'ouverture des travaux du Congrès de Barcelone

6 octobre: Forum d'ouverture des travaux en session plénière suivi de l'ouverture des trois sessions thématiques du Congrès. …  

07 Oct 2008 | Video

The deadly dozen - The Wildlife Conservation Society
Sounds the Alarm on Wildlife–Human Disease Threats in the Age of Climate Change

Forewarned is forearmed

Health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released a report that lists 12 pathogens that could spread into new regions as a result of climate change, at the IUCN World Conservation Congress today. All have potential impacts to human and wildlife health, as well as global economies. …  

07 Oct 2008 | News story

Mangroves, Vanua Levu, Fiji

How to make the most of tropical forests

Indigenous people and policy makers were brought together to discuss the best way to preserve tropical forests at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. …  

07 Oct 2008 | News story

Pamela Cox
IUCN TV

Banking on change

The World Bank is compiling a report on the impacts of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean. Pamela Cox, the Bank's Regional Vice President spoke to IUCN Web TV about some of the key findings and what is being done in response. …  

07 Oct 2008 | Video

Turtle

Marine issues go high tech

A new layer of Google Earth Outreach was launched today which will bring marine conservation to millions of desktops around the world for the first time. …  

07 Oct 2008 | News story

Barcelona Congress

Congress Steering Committee confirms deadline for submitting new motions to the Congress: 10 October, 14h00

To be considered, the text of new motions are to be submitted electronically to motions@iucn.org by the deadline: 14h00 on 10 October. The principal sponsor and four co-sponsors must confirm their sponsorship of the motion in writing at the Resolutions Help Desk before the deadline. …   | French | Spanish

07 Oct 2008 | News story

Marcus Brown, CEO of Young&Rubicam Brands
IUCN TV

When do we stop buying?

Is the advertising industry the main culprit for over consumption in the developed world? What needs to be done to change people's ways and minds?
IUCN TV talks to Marcus Brown, CEO of Young&Rubicam Brands, who confirms that one planet is just not enough. …  

07 Oct 2008 | Video

Maria Blair, Managing Director of the Rockefeller Foundation

Financial crunch heralds a different future for philanthropy

Foundations who fund philanthropy expect the current economic meltdown means they will have to do more with less. But most assured the audience at the IUCN congress’s debate today on how philanthropy can contribute to a sustainable future that they are in this business for the long term. …  

07 Oct 2008 | News story

Sacred natural sites : guidelines for protected area managers

IUCN and UNESCO publish guidelines on sacred natural sites in protected areas

Thousands of sacred natural sites are in jeopardy around the world despite the fact that many lie within formal Protected Areas. …  

07 Oct 2008 | International news release

Water and Nature Initiative

Critics challenge conservationists to emulate business leaders for change

Two days after IUCN's President called on the world's corporate executives to seat environmental leaders on every board of directors, critics at the World Conservation Congress countered that environmental leaders must urgently learn and adopt business management approaches, otherwise the conservation movement will continue to “fail” to achieve the impacts it has been seeking for decades. …  

07 Oct 2008 | International news release