🚨 15 emerging issues that could shape #biodiversity action in the decade ahead! A newly published 2026 Global Horizon Scan explores potential issues that could become increasingly important for people and nature. Learn more here 💡: tinyurl.com/2u2d97ee

🚨 Protected Planet has launched the World Database on Protected and Conserved Areas (WDPCA) - a new and unified database, merging the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and the World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM). Learn more here: tinyurl.com/mr649ywy

A new case study explores how the ENCORE tool supported Banco Davivienda to conduct its first nature-related risk assessment.🌳📊 Learn how the tool is supporting one of Colombia’s leading banks to put nature at the heart of financial decision-making 👉 encorenature.org/news/davivie...

As we move into 2026, we look forward to embracing new opportunities to further contribute to positive outcomes for nature and people, and advancing a whole-of-society approach to #conservation. #biodiversity #SustainableDevelopment

In 2025, we supported countries in setting ambitious targets #ForNature 💡🌳 We supported the Government of Kazakhstan to set new national biodiversity targets and increase their protected areas network by 2035. Learn more here👉 tinyurl.com/4u4d5nv7 #protectedareas #kazakhstan #conservation

In 2025, we supported governments to deliver on their nature ambitious. 🌎 We developed new and strengthened partnerships with governments through our National Ecosystem Assessment Initiative. Learn more about the NEA initiative here: www.ecosystemassessments.net 🌿

In 2025, we championed locally-led biodiversity action. 🌿💪 We continued to contribute to the Transformative Pathways initiative, ensuring that actions led by the #IndigenousPeoples and #localcommunities are recognized around the world. More about the initiative: transformativepathways.net

In 2025, we contributed at major international biodiversity conferences.💡 We provided inputs to collectively address the triple planetary crisis of 🌡️ Climate change 🥀 Biodiversity loss 🌫️ Pollution Read our reflections from the biodiversity conference: tinyurl.com/bdcup476

In 2025, we generated real world impact and contributed to supporting people and nature in many ways. 🌿🌎  We supported the discovery and protection of new species. Read our latest blog to learn more: tinyurl.com/46s4bvh6

🚨 UNEP-WCMC biodiversity experts report back on the #CITESCoP20! Our experts provided scientific & technical support for several successful proposals, including 🐸 four species of water frogs, 🌊 the golden sandfish, & 🌱 a perennial shrub Read our latest blog to learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/phdvn8nf

🚨 New guidance for asset managers and asset owners! This guidance aims to help investors better understand the significance of Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) and actions they can take to manage risks to these networks. 📑: tinyurl.com/49pn5cbp

🚨 New brief! What are Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) and how are they important to businesses? 🏞️ Our experts have developed a brief, introducing OECMs for a business audience. Download the full document here 📑 : tinyurl.com/3bs4fy7t

The 'NBSAPs and Private Finance Outlook: the United Kingdom', notes several entry points that can be considered by the private financial sector to support the UK’s biodiversity agenda. Head to our Resources section to read our recommendations in detail: tinyurl.com/39vmchmf

📣 UNEP-WCMC will be attending #UNEA7! UNEA-7 will unite 193 Member States, the UN system, civil society, and scientific and business community to deepen global cooperation on the environment and shape robust policies #ForPeopleForPlanet. Stay tuned to this space for more updates!

🚨Meet our event partners! UNEP-WCMC is pleased to announce our new partners Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) and United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) for the 2026 #NatureActionDialogues. ➡️ Secure your early bird tickets 🔗 lnkd.in/dE-AMdg6

The 'NBSAPs and Private Finance Outlook: Mexico', examines the country’s current biodiversity finance landscape and potential entry points for private finance to help implement their national biodiversity strategy and action plans. 🔗 tinyurl.com/bp6kmmsw also available in Spanish

🚨New update to the global Critical Habitat screening layer! 🌐 Our experts have released a comprehensive update to the global Critical Habitat screening layer, providing businesses & financial institutions with highly detailed data to mitigate their biodiversity risks: tinyurl.com/y8rw23w2

Sustainability is increasingly being viewed as a value creator rather than a cost centre for businesses. 🌿 Read our latest blog to learn about nature-related risks and opportunities for businesses and UNEP-WCMC's role in supporting #privatesector action #ForNature 🔗 tinyurl.com/y565cv57

The 'NBSAPs for Private Finance: Indonesia', highlights the potential of creating enabling conditions for the development of innovative finance mechanisms, such as blended finance schemes, faith-based financing, and debt-for-nature swaps. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mr3u76s2 also available in Bahasa.

📣 UNEP-WCMC will be in Uzbekistan, attending the #CITESCoP20! 🌿🦎 Our delegates will be engaging with CITES Parties and observer organizations while contributing to various discussions on the regulation of international wildlife trade. Meet our experts between 24 Nov and 5 Dec in Samarkand!

🚨 New blog - How can seascape #restoration contribute to #climatechange mitigation? Our latest blog explores evidence of carbon storage & sequestration in #marine & coastal habitats & potential barriers to integrating them into wider biodiversity & restoration strategies🔗 tinyurl.com/bptyw39z

The 'NBSAPs for Private Finance: the Democratic Republic of the Congo', notes several entry points to be considered by decision-makers in the public and private financial sectors to enhance private finance support of the biodiversity agenda. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2u4p7cfw also available in French

🌍 Did you know? Biodiversity loss, climate change, health, water & food security are linked! IPBES #NexusAssessment explores 70+ solutions for a sustainable future.🏡🧪 Discover how interconnected challenges need interconnected actions with UNEP-WCMC https://ow.ly/BXLH50Xpb9C

The 'NBSAPs and Private Finance Outlook: Brazil', explores key opportunities that the process of updating national biodiversity strategy and action plans, and their subsequent implementation, might open for private finance institutions. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3wryfvwu also available in Portuguese!

What does 'transformative change' really mean?💡 In our latest blog, our Technical Specialist in #NatureBasedSolutions for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, shares thought-provoking perspectives that analyse the nature of #transformativechange. Read her full blog here: tinyurl.com/4btbxs4h

🚨With contributions & advice of ICCA networks of territories & areas conserved by #IndigenousPeoples & #localcommunities from Colombia, Ecuador, Senegal, Morocco, & Spain, our experts have co-created a guide on how to set up their peer-review and peer-support processes. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4anwbstf

The link between #HumanHealth and #nature is increasingly clear and the private sector could play a key role in driving integrated solutions. As we observe the International #OneHealthDay, we reflect on the nexus of nature and health and how it relates to business 🔗

Our Deputy Director Melissa de Kock reflects on the vital role of organisations such as UNEP-WCMC in supporting the integration of community knowledge and contributions into global processes like the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. 🌎🌿 Watch here 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmsq...

Tero Mustonen from Snowchange Cooperative, demonstrates how working with #IndigenousKnowledge and science can help restore degraded landscapes and potentially adapt to climate changes.🌳💡 Watch success stories from the Boreal and Arctic regions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmsq...

UNEP-WCMC will be in Panama this week, attending the 27th session of #SBSTTA! Check out our list of delegates and events 👇 If you are in Panama City, from 20 - 24 October 2025, meet our delegates.

🚨 New update! The ENCORE Partnership launches the tool’s new value chain functionality, unlocking a range of benefits to companies and financial institutions and providing users a clearer understanding of their nature-related dependencies and impacts across value chains. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2ywtmm2d

UNEP-WCMC commenced Day 2 of the #IUCNcongress in the learning zone 💡 where technical experts demonstrated the functionalities of the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT)! 💻🌿 Explore the Tool👉 ibat-alliance.org #biodiversity #data #ForNature

📣 Join our nature-based solutions experts at Adaptation Futures 2025! They will put a spotlight on how NbS and ecosystem-based adaptation can help build resilience of people, assets and nature to better adapt to the impacts of #BiodiversityLoss and #ClimateChange. Scroll for events ⤵️ [1/2]

Communities living close to nature have a mental map. And transforming this mental map into tangible, visible and shareable data for ecosystem and biodiversity assessment through GIS system is extremely vital. 🌐🌿

Indigenous Peoples and local communities play a critical role in mapping and monitoring the state of biodiversity in their lands and territories. 🌎🔍🌿 Hear stories of the work by the Ogeik people in Kenya👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmsq... #IndigenousPeoples #mapping #localcommunities

Why does the link between nature and human health matter? 🔗🩻🌿 Our latest blog explores the interconnections between biodiversity loss and human health and the role of private sector in driving integrated solutions.  Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/2fvwn92h

Join UNEP-WCMC at the #IUCNcongress! Meet and engage with our team at this year's event, taking place from 📆 9 - 16 October, 2025, in📍Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. We look forward to seeing you there! #GlobalConservation #ForNature 🌿

"Co-designing approaches to reduce biodiversity impacts of biomass trade: A CLEVER Innovation Action Pool” report, showcases how evidence-based approaches and incremental innovations in #SupplyChains can positively enhance the sustainability of production and global trade. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3h8xhdmc

📢 Join us at Building Bridges on 2 October! Our experts will share how the latest updates to ENCORE can support companies to better integrate nature into business. Find out more and register here 👉 tinyurl.com/3edsmkwc

🌊 How are ocean accounts a valuable tool in marine restoration? 💡 Our blog explain the benefits of ocean accounts, which brings diverse data sources together into one system, simplifying tracking and monitoring of changes in marine ecosystems over time. Learn more: tinyurl.com/yvc5wma5

To help decision-makers integrate environmental sensitivity into planning and development, UNEP-WCMC and the Norwegian Environment Agency have developed Mapping Environmentally Sensitive Assets (MESA), a methodology and GIS-based tool. Download the guide here: tinyurl.com/5n6dh87z

🚨New brief! 📑 Biodiversity target setting approaches underpin private sector companies’ commitments and actions #ForNature 🌿 Latest brief by Proteus Partnership navigates the target setting landscape, comparing existing and emerging approaches: tinyurl.com/3mhejwrv

‘Mobilizing Finance for Biodiversity’ outlines options to strengthen private finance sector contributions to national biodiversity strategies and action plans (#NBSAPs). Read more on our blog: tinyurl.com/y6pm4e7s Download the full report here: tinyurl.com/39yns2pz

📣Reminder! Join us on 15 September from 13.30 - 16.00 (Central European Summer Time) for the IPBES Online Global Dialogue Workshop to promote the use of IPBES products in policymaking! For registration details, please contact your @ipbes.net and @unbiodiversity.bsky.social national focal points.

🚨New guide!🌱 A new report “Just and Effective Engagement in Landscape Restoration (Europe)” explores the importance of just and effective stakeholder engagement as both, a legal requirement and a critical factor for successful ecosystem restoration. Download here: tinyurl.com/2v3y3pr8

The 2025 Accountability for Nature Report, co-authored by UNEP-WCMC and the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) , provides a comprehensive overview of key trends in nature- and pollution-related assessment and disclosure approaches. Download the report now💡📑: lnkd.in/eNYxiVr8

Interested in understanding how a plurality of values can influence biodiversity decision-making? Then tune into PLANET4B’s final event, happening in person in Brussels and online on 11 September. Register to attend online 👉 tinyurl.com/5askucx2

📣Reminder! Join us on 9 September from 13.30 - 16.00 (Central European Summer Time) for the IPBES Online Global Dialogue Workshop to promote the use of IPBES products in policymaking! For registration details, please contact your @ipbes.net and @unbiodiversity.bsky.social national focal points.

We will be supporting the EU Commission in implementing the European Union Desforestation-free Regulation. Our project team will offer support ranging from updated guidance to communication materials. Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/yzpu54yh

📣 Join us on 15 September from 13.30 - 16.00 (Central European Summer Time) for the IPBES Online Global Dialogue Workshop to promote the use of IPBES products in policymaking! For registration details, please contact your @ipbes.net and @unbiodiversity.bsky.social national focal points.