IUCN World Conservation Congress: In News
India unveiled its National Red List Roadmap and Vision 2025-2030 at the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025.
- It is the largest gathering of nature conservation experts, leaders and decision-makers in the world.
- It will help shape global priorities for nature conservation and climate change for the coming decade and beyond.
- It is held once-every-four-years.
- Components of IUCN World Conservation Congress
- It is the largest knowledge marketplace for conservation and sustainable development science, practice and innovation
- In the Exhibition, IUCN Members and Commissions, businesses, partners, and academia host pavilions, booths and events.
- Member’s Assembly: It is IUCN’s highest decision-making body. During the Assembly, IUCN’s Member organisations vote on pressing conservation and sustainable development issues.
- Theme of IUCN Congress 2025: Under the theme “Powering transformative conservation”.
Key Facts about IUCN:
- The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a membership Union of government and civil society organisations.
- It was established in 1948, IUCN is now the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network, harnessing the knowledge, resources.
- Governance of IUCN
- President and Council: The council is IUCN’s principal governing body in between sessions of the World Conservation Congress.
- The IUCN President presides over the IUCN Council.
- IUCN World Conservation Congress: The Members’ Assembly of the IUCN World Conservation Congress is IUCN’s highest governing body.
- IUCN Members discuss strategic topics, adopt motions defining IUCN’s general policy, approve the IUCN programme, amend IUCN’s statutes and elect the IUCN Council.
- IUCN Statutes: It lays out the governance of IUCN.
