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Business and governments engagements
are key for nature

Business engagement

51 million+

CHF value of IUCN projects with a business engagement component

Governments engagement

115

countries have government policies on biodiversity offsets

Sustainable investments

12 %

global growth per year of assets managed under sustainable investments strategies

How we engage

In order to transform the way business values, manages and invests in nature, IUCN engages companies and key sectors to identify their impacts on biodiversity and create innovative solutions to address this challenge.

Valuing
biodiversity
in business

Delivering
biodiversity
net gain

Investing
in
nature

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IUCN advises in-danger status for Yemen’s Socotra Archipelago World Heritage site
18.06.2018
Uncontrolled development, unsustainable fisheries and invasive species threaten Yemen’s Socotra Archipelago, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which recommends placing the site on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
Photo: IUCN

Building partnerships for water, energy and food security in Central Asia
13.06.2018
At a time when global trends, such as climate change, population growth and changing consumption patterns, contribute to increasing demands for water, energy and food, impact biodiversity and threaten the livelihoods of the local population, it is ever more...
Photo: IUCN / Elena Osipova

World Heritage in-danger: Belize reef recovers while Lake Turkana faces dam threat – IUCN
28.05.2018
In-danger status can be lifted from the world’s second largest coral reef, Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in charge of advising the UNESCO World Heritage Committee on natural sites....