Current projects
Making REDD Work for the Poor
IUCN, in collaboration with the Poverty and Environment Partnership (PEP), hosted an event during the Bali conference on climate change. As part of a full day devoted to the role of forests in climate change, organized by CIFOR, IUCN helped to ensure that social issues and linkages to poverty reduction were high on the agenda. …
09 Dec 2007 | Description - Project
Developing International Payments for Ecosystem Services
The IPES concept emerged from growing concern about the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, combined with inspiration from the early success of the global carbon market and a desire to scale-up experiences with PES at regional and national levesl. In response, an initiative on IPES was developed jointly by IUCN and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in close collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The initiative was 'launched' at an expert meeting of PES practitioners from around the world, in Geneva, in September 2006.
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04 Jul 2007 | Description - Project
Assessing the economic value of ecosystem conservation
Valuation studies have considerably increased our knowledge of the value of ecosystems. Their usefulness has often been undermined, however, by a failure to properly frame them so as to address the specific question of interest. Unfortunately, environmental advocates in the media, government, business, and civil society have often seized on impressive but sometimes unsound …
01 Jan 2004 | Description - Project
