Held once every four years, the IUCN World Conservation Congress hosts the Members’ Assembly, which is the IUCN’s highest decision making body.
Key Resolutions at Member’s Assembly
- Strategic Vision: Approved the 20-year Strategic Vision and a new programme for next four-year period.
- Abu Dhabi Call to Action: Accelerate action across five key areas – reaffirming nature as foundation of well-being, strengthening multilateralism, ensuring justice and inclusion, advancing knowledge and innovation, and scaling up resources for nature and climate action.
- New Members: Over 100 new members including six states – Armenia, Tajikistan, Marshall Islands, Gabon, Tuvalu, and Zimbabwe.
- First-ever Policy on Synthetic Biology and Nature Conservation: Synthetic biology may carry both substantial benefits (e.g. to restore lost genetic diversity or to locally eradicate invasive alien species) and significant risks (e.g. unintended ecological cascades), necessitating balanced policy.
- Fossil Fuels (Motion 042): Recognized production of fossil fuel as a direct threat and urged a global phase-out treaty and just transition.
- Wildlife Trade (Motion 108): Proposed regulation to curb commercial trade in wild animals kept as pets.
- Crime of Ecocide (Motion 061): Recognizes ecocide (deliberate environmental harm) as international crime under the International Criminal Court.
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