Climate Change

IUCN Resolutions on climate change

Here you will find IUCN's climate change-related Resolutions and Recommendations adopted during IUCN World Conservation Congresses. These documents are part of IUCN's general policy.

They are available in IUCN's three official languages. 

Sixth World Conservation Congress – 2016 

Protected areas as natural solutions to climate change
IUCN response to the Paris Climate Change Agreement
Take greater account of the ocean in the climate regime
Pacific region climate resiliency action plan
Integration of nature-based solutions into strategies to combat climate change

Fifth World Conservation Congress –  2012

Advancing the role of nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation and their potential to contribute to the global climate change regulatory regime
Promoting ecosystem-based adaptation
Climate change justice and equity considerations
Integrating protected areas into climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies
Responsible renewable energy sources
Traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples and local peasant communities in the Andes and the Amazon Rainforest as a mechanism for adaptation to climate change
Food security, ecosystem restoration and climate change
Addressing the impacts of environmentally unsustainable industrial-scale agricultural and animal husbandry enterprises on climate change, food security and biodiversity
Altitudinal corridors: an adaptation strategy in the Andes
Development of renewable energy and biodiversity conservation

Fourth World Conservation Congress – 2008

Development of climate change guidelines for IUCN Red List assessments
The Yasuní-ITT Initiative
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD)
Mangrove conservation in Mesoamerica
Climate change and overexploitation of natural resources - inclusion in the IUCN Programme
Climate change mitigation targets and actions for biodiversity conservation
Biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation and adaptation in national policies and strategies
Climate change and human rights
Appeal for action to address global environmental change
Mobilizing action to build resilience and assist adaptation to climate change of coral reefs and marine ecosystems and people that depend on them
Sustainable biomass-based energy
Responding to deforestation and land degradation related to climate change and desertification

Third World Conservation Congress – 2004

Adapting to climate change: a framework for conservation action
IUCN’s energy-related work relevant to biodiversity conservation
Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Second World Conservation Congress – 2000

Climate Change, Biodiversity and IUCN’s Overall Programme
Climate and Energy
Climate Change Mitigation and Land Use

First World Conservation Congress – 1996

Climate Change
Climate Change, Biodiversity and the IUCN Programme
Protocol or Other Legal Instrument to the Framework Convention on Climate Change

18th General Assembly – 1990

Global Climate Change

17th General Assembly – 1988

Global Warming of the Atmosphere
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