New IUCN resolution urges stronger climate change mitigation 14
October 2008 | News story More than 98 percent of IUCN NGO
members and 70 percent of state members voted in favour of a new
climate change mitigation resolution. The resolution targets
more specific goals and actions on biodiversity, ecosystem
services and livelihoods protection. Addressing Parties to the
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the call
emphasizes the need for recognizing the role that ecological
networks and the system of Protected Areas can play in
mitigation and adaptation. It also emphasizes the need to ensure
that climate funds are invested in the systems to maintain their
functions in climate change. The resolution put forward a
request to the IUCN Director General to promote the adoption of
the target of reducing greenhouse gas emission by 50 percent to
58 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 at the 15th UNFCCC
Convention of Parties in Copenhagen in 2009. A multi-national,
IUCN-member expert group discussed and re