Events

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) invite you to join a virtual dialogue on 3rd March 2022 / 2:00-4:00 pm CET (World Wildlife Day) that will present lessons learned and discuss challenges and opportunities for a renewed EU Action Plan to tackle wildlife trafficking, including how the EU can support the fight against wildlife trafficking in the field in partner countries.
This year, we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Habitats Directive, Europe’s historical key legal instrument in the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. In the past three decades, much has been achieved for biodiversity in Europe, but much more need to be done. The European Commission recently developed criteria and guidance to reach the 30×30 target of the EU Biodiversity Strategy, in line with the global targets proposed to the 15th Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and with the objectives of the Bern Convention.
Goal C and Target 13 of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
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The COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference, hosted by the UK in partnership with Italy, will take place from 31 October to 12 November 2021 in the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow, UK.

In light of the worldwide effects of COVID-19, the COP Bureau of the UNFCCC, with the UK and its Italian

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Discover tools that can be used to support the operationalisation of the GBF.
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The UN Biodiversity Conference (Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-15), Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CP-MOP 10), and Fourth meeting of the

The partners of the Interreg 2 Seas project PROWATER are happy to introduce the PROWATER International Workshop on the design & operationalisation of a rewarding system for Ecosystem-based Adaptation. 

The seminar "How to incentivise Nature-based Solutions?" is the first in a series of events

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The upcoming IUCN World Conservation Congress will take place virtually and in-person from 3 – 11 September in Marseille, France.

The IUCN World Conservation Congress is the world’s largest conservation event. The event will bring together thousands of leaders and decision-makers from governments

The high-level political segment, under the leadership of President Iván Duque Márquez, will consist of a virtual format with Heads of State and Government.
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In the run-up to the IUCN Local Action Summit (September 3rd 2021 in Marseille), 4 closed webinars will be held by IUCN. More information here.

  1. 22 June 2021 - LOCAL ACTION FOR OUTSTANDING NATURE
    How to conserve biodiversity hotspots
  2. 23 June 2021 - LOCAL ACTION FOR PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE