China's Choices
Choices that will have major global implications
There are no answers, just choices, this is one place to follow the choices that China makes. This nation of 1.3 billion people is faced with the daunting task of building on its 30 years of unprecedented economic development without further damage to its environment. How is it going to do this and how is that effort going to impact the rest of the world? ...learn more
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The World Conservation Union is the world’s largest and most important conservation network. The Union brings together 82 States, 111 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership.
The Union’s mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
The priority of the Union’s current Programme (2005–2008) is to build recognition of the many ways in which human lives and livelihoods, especially of the poor, depend on the sustainable management of natural resources.
Policy
Giving policy advice and technical support to governments, UN organizations, international conventions and other groupings such as the G8 and G77.
Assessing all new sites nominated for natural World Heritage Site listing
Contributing technical assistance to prepare national biodiversity strategies and action plans
Providing technical support for drafting environmental laws and natural resource management strategies
Knowledge
Monitoring the state of the world’s species through the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Contributing to and supporting the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Convening multi stakeholder events such as the World Parks Congress in 2003
Disseminating the Union’s knowledge and expertise through the World Conservation Bookstore
Action
Through the Water and Nature Initiative, working with 80 partners in a five-year global action plan in 10 water basins
Through the Forest for Life Strategy, promoting wise management through guidelines for fire prevention and community management of forest resources
Working with the corporate sector on energy and biodiversity, and mining and protected areas
Facilitating Parks for Peace between countries in areas of conflict
The Union’s mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
The priority of the Union’s current Programme (2005–2008) is to build recognition of the many ways in which human lives and livelihoods, especially of the poor, depend on the sustainable management of natural resources.
Policy
Giving policy advice and technical support to governments, UN organizations, international conventions and other groupings such as the G8 and G77.
Assessing all new sites nominated for natural World Heritage Site listing
Contributing technical assistance to prepare national biodiversity strategies and action plans
Providing technical support for drafting environmental laws and natural resource management strategies
Knowledge
Monitoring the state of the world’s species through the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Contributing to and supporting the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Convening multi stakeholder events such as the World Parks Congress in 2003
Disseminating the Union’s knowledge and expertise through the World Conservation Bookstore
Action
Through the Water and Nature Initiative, working with 80 partners in a five-year global action plan in 10 water basins
Through the Forest for Life Strategy, promoting wise management through guidelines for fire prevention and community management of forest resources
Working with the corporate sector on energy and biodiversity, and mining and protected areas
Facilitating Parks for Peace between countries in areas of conflict
