In anticipation of the new 2009-2012 Programme, IUCN will be creating a new Global Economics and Environment Programme (GEEP). Please check back with us for updated information.
Since 1948, IUCN has been a global partnership of states, government agencies, NGOs, and experts. Active in over 150 countries, IUCN’s mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
For many years, IUCN has supported efforts to integrate economic perspectives and methods into nature conservation.
This includes work on:
- valuing environmental benefits and costs
- developing positive economic incentives for nature conservation and investment in biodiversity-friendly business
- removing or reforming so-called “perverse” incentives that result in the loss of biological diversity.
Much of this work is documented in the IUCN Biodiversity Economics library.
A woman on a market in Rio Grande de Buba, Guinea-Bissau
Photo: IUCN Photo Library (c) Phillipe Tous
