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2025 IUCN World Conservation Congress
At the world's largest conservation gathering, IUCN Assembly Members adopted close to 150 motions to pursue policy directions in diverse areas, a new 20-year Strategic Vision for IUCN, and new quadrennial IUCN Programme 2026-2029 to lead and influence the global environmental agenda.
IUCN Global Youth Summit
The IUCN Global Youth Summit served as a platform to initiate critical discussions on how to shape youth-centered outcomes for conserving nature and set the scene for the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025.
World Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nature
Discussions during the historic Summit revealed the enormous contributions to conservation by Indigenous Peoples and emphasized that Indigenous priorities need to shape national plans and international frameworks.
42nd UN-Water Meeting
Speakers at the UN-Water meeting stressed the need to identify priorities and preferred outcomes from the 2026 UN Water Conference and emphasized the opportunity for the 2026 and 2028 conferences to transform the global water agenda for 2030 and beyond.
21st Meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee to the Stockholm Convention (POPRC-21)
Several issues highlighted the growing challenge of eliminating persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from complex global supply chains. With only one draft risk profile on the agenda, participants also focused on the need for exemptions and how best to collect information on complex chemical groups.
ENERGYNOW: SDG7 Action Forum 2025
The fourth annual ENERGYNOW: SDG7 Action Forum served as an important platform to review progress, sustain momentum, and drive ambitious action, particularly in the lead-up to the third review of SDG7.
Climate Summit 2025
Parties announced updated national targets for climate action, reaffirmed their support for multilateralism and science, and demanded immediate action to prevent the irreversible damage resulting from a rapidly heating planet.
21st Meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC-21)
The Committee reviewed 35 notifications of final regulatory action related to 18 pesticides and three proposals for severely hazardous pesticide formulations (SHPFs). But they found that many of the notifications and all of the SHPF proposals did not meet the criteria set out in the Convention.
5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves
Delegates underlined their main success of the last decade: enhancing the quality of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, a catalogue of internationally designated protected areas that act as “living laboratories” for testing novel approaches to advance biodiversity and development agenda. They also highlighted that future work must focus on scaling up impact.