Invitation letter from Julia Marton-Lefèvre,
Director General of IUCN
IUCN and our partners Parks Australia
and the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service extend you a very
warm welcome to the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014, and the beautiful city of
Sydney.
Taking the theme of Parks, People, Planet – Inspiring Solutions,
the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 will advance an ambitious agenda that will
inspire solutions for today's most pressing global challenges. As a prestigious
global gathering of protected area leaders and professionals and the wider
cross-section of society, with a legacy of collaboration and innovation dating
back to the inaugural event in 1961, this World Parks Congress promises to
build a dynamic foundation for achieving conservation and development goals for
the decade to come.
For the IUCN World Parks Congress
2014, we are particularly inspired by the success of the last Congress, held in
Durban, South Africa in 2003. Durban helped develop a new paradigm for
protected areas, defining and advancing the roles of governance, sustainable
finance, capacity development, social equity and benefit sharing, leading to
the Durban Action Plan and Durban Accord, both of which informed the Convention
on Biological Diversity's successful Programme of Work on Protected Areas.
Sydney offers the opportunity to build
on this success and to go further to confront the new challenges facing the
world. Coming at the halfway mark of the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets,
agreed by nearly 200 governments in Nagoya, Japan in 2010, this Congress will
provide a unique opportunity to report on our progress and take bold new steps.
It will enable us to build new alliances, and to respond to what the world
needs from protected areas for sustainable development.
In Sydney, our work will build on our
collective achievements while drawing inspiration from the next generation of
conservation leaders. We look forward to welcoming youth, governments,
businesses and indigenous peoples to unite in partnerships from beyond the
conservation world, where our shared ambition to provide lasting natural
solutions to today's conservation and development challenges will result in
tangible and enduring benefits for parks and people worldwide.
Please join us as we embark on this
singular journey in support of IUCN's vision of 'a just world that values and
conserves nature'.
Registration is open now
Click HERE to register
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