IUCN World Conservation Congress

IUCN World Conservation Congress

Recently, India unveiled its National Red List Roadmap and Vision 2025-2030 at the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025.

About IUCN World Conservation Congress

• 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.
• Theme of IUCN Congress 2025: Under the theme “Powering transformative conservation”.

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Components of IUCN World Conservation Congress

• Forum: It is the largest knowledge marketplace for conservation and sustainable development science, practice and innovation. 
• Exhibition: 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.

Key Facts about IUCN

• The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a membership Union of government and civil society organisations.
• It was created 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.

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