IUCN`s mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. Influencing policies to these ends is a key aspect of IUCN`s work.
The key Policy issues currently are: Conservation and poverty; climate change and biodiversity; markets, finance and incentives for ecosystem services; and biodiversity and the international environmental system.
Our mission and vision
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While much of IUCN`s policy work has traditionally been targeted at governmental and intergovernmental levels, it is increasingly focused also on other actors and sectors of the international community, including not-for-profit and commercial organizations at sub-national, national, regional and international levels.
