This page contains a large selection of events which were particularly relevant to markets, economics and business.
There are event more relevant events! Information on all the events can be found on the IUCN Congress website.
| Date | Time | Title | Organiser |
| 06-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Inspiring business to become
Leaders for Nature | IUCN National Committee of the Netherlands |
| 06-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Baseline Criteria for Sustainable
Tourism Certification | Rainforest Alliance, Inc. |
| 06-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | The Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) | Conservation International |
| 06-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Safeguarding Human Well-being and the Financial Sustainability of National Protected Area Systems | Conservation International |
| 06-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Made to measure: scaling species-based indicators from a global to a regional and national level | IUCN Species Survival Commission |
| 06-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Accelerating transitions to sustainable energy futures | IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature |
| 06-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Small companies, large footprint? | IUCN - Business and Biodiversity Programme |
| 06-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | The Economics of
Ecosystems and Biodiversity | IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature |
| 06-Oct | 16:30 - 18:00 | Alternative Guarantee Systems to Promote Domestic Marketing of Organic Agriculture | Institute for Integrated Rural Development |
| 06-Oct | 16:30 - 18:00 | Integration of Biodiversity and
Agrobiodiversity Conservation | IUCN SSC Crop Wild Relative Specialist Group |
| 06-Oct | 16:30 - 18:00 | Fishing for Sustainability: Negotiations on Fisheries Subsidies Reform | United Nations Environment Programme, Economics and Trade Branch |
| 06-Oct | 16:30 - 18:00 | Launch of the redeveloped UNEP IUCN
World Database on Protected Areas:
a new tool for conservation tool for conservation | IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas |
| 06-Oct | 16:30 - 18:00 | Restoring Nature’s Capital: Tools for integrating ecosystem services into decision making | World Resources Institute |
| 06-Oct | 16:30 - 18:00 | Business as Unusual: Multi-stakeholder Partnerships in Action - identifying success factors, measuring of impact, strategies for scaling up and replication | The SEED Initiative |
| 06-Oct | 16:30 - 18:00 | The Macroeconomic Connection: Monetary and Fiscal Policies for Sustainability in Latin America | Chair of the Theme on Environment, Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment of
IUCN |
| 06-Oct | 18:30 - 20:00 | Valuing natural capital – overcoming barriers to market valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services | Fauna and Flora International |
| 08-Oct | 9:30 - 11:00 | Value for the Valuable: Innovations in Financing Conservation | Wildlife Conservation Society |
| 06-Oct | 18:30 - 20:00 | From Chico Mendes to Copenhagen: Learning from Forest Peoples how to make REDD work | Environmental Defense Fund |
| 06-Oct | 18:30 - 20:00 | Conservation organizations and agriculture: Who’s doing what and how? | Ecoagriculture Partners |
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| 07-Oct | 09:30 - 11:00 | Biodiversity Offsets: contributing to Rio Tinto's net positive impact on biodiversity | Rio Tinto Limited |
| 07-Oct | 09:30 - 11:00 | The role of corporations in biodiversity conservation. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or "greenwashing"? | Acció Natura |
| 07-Oct | 09:30 - 11:00 | Facing the challenges of REDD | Fauna and Flora International |
| 07-Oct | 09:30 - 11:00 | Intergenerational Partnership with the IUCN: Fostering ethical leadership for a just, sustainable, and peaceful world | Earth Charter International |
| 07-Oct | 9:30 - 11:00 | Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industries | IUCN Commission on Environment, Economic, and Social Policy |
| 07-Oct | 09:30 - 11:00 | Creating a Global Approach to Avoiding, Minimizing and Offsetting Wetland Loss | The Nature Conservancy |
| 07-Oct | 9:30 - 11:00 | Benefiting local communities through micro-enterprise development | Holcim |
| 07-Oct | 9:30 - 11:00 | Are ecosystem indicators meeting users needs and guiding conservation in the appropriate direction? | IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management |
| 07-Oct | 11:30 - 13:00 | Finding the balance - biodiversity conservation and productive agriculture | Earthwatch Institute (Europe) |
| 07-Oct | 11:30 - 13:00 | Delivering Multiple Benefits from Forest Carbon Markets to Address Climate Change, Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Alleviation | IUCN Chief Economist |
| 07-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Conservation and Livelihoods in Production Landscapes: Coffee and cocoa consumers push sustainability in tropical agriculture | Rainforest Alliance, Inc. |
| 07-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Fisheries management and marine ecosystems conservation: is it possible to integrate sectorial policies and overpass antagonisms? | IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature |
| 07-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Mining and Conservation: Conflict or Consensus? | International Council on Mining and Metals |
| 07-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Bridging the gap between agriculture and nature conservation | Bioversity International |
| 07-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Biodiversity Conservation and Freshwater Services: Making the Link | Conservation International |
| 07-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Developing corporate strategies to manage risks and opportunities related to ecosystem services | World Resources Institute |
| 07-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Towards the reduction of impacts along the life cycle of goods and services | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP DTIE) |
| 07-Oct | 16:30 - 18:00 | Behind the scenes: How a mining company plans to achieve a net positive impact on biodiversity | Rio Tinto Limited |
| 07-Oct | 16:30 - 18:00 | PES: How to turn value into real money? | Conservation International |
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| 08-Oct | 09:30 - 11:00 | The business world's role in conservation education and communication:
examples from Brazil | IPÊ - Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (Institute for Ecological Research) |
| 08-Oct | 9:30 - 11:00 | Green Construction for Sustainable Living | IUCN - Sustainability dialogues |
| 08-Oct | 11:30 - 13:00 | Conservation in the Real World: Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Production Landscapes | The World Bank |
| 08-Oct | 11:30 - 13:00 | Independent Scientific Panels: towards informed decision making | IUCN - Business and Biodiversity Programme |
| 08-Oct | 11:30 - 13:00 | Wild plants for food and medicine – assessing and conserving plants for peopl | IUCN - Species Programme |
| 08-Oct | 11:30 - 13:00 | Economic and Social Drivers of the Wildlife Trade: The links between wealth, poverty and engagement in the wildlife trade | TRAFFIC WWF and IUCN |
| 08-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Ecological Footprint: Linking Human Well-Being and Biological Capital. | Global Footprint Network |
| 08-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Building Competencies for Partnerships
with the Private Sector | Commission on Education and Communication and IPÊ - Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (Institute for Ecological Research) |
| 08-Oct | 16:30 - 18:00 | The power of communications and marketing – towards sustainable consumption | World Business Council for Sustainable Development |
| 08-Oct | 16:30 - 18:00 | A fine balance – pharmaceuticals in the environment - biological power to save life or destroy it – examination of the evidence | Zoological Society of London |
| 08-Oct | 16:30 - 18:00 | Transforming Markets –
the Private Sector’s Role in Securing
a Diverse and Sustainable Future | TRAFFIC - IUCN and WWF |
| 08-Oct | 18:30 - 20:00 | Energy or Biodiversity? | International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association |
| 08-Oct | 18:30 - 20:00 | Towards biodiversity friendly hotels | Accor |
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| 09-Oct | 9:30 - 11:00 | Go Wild! Herbal products, local livelihoods, and the new International Standard for Sustainable Wild Collection of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ISSC-MAP) | IUCN-SSC Medicinal Plant Specialist Group |
| 09-Oct | 9:30 - 11:00 | Sustainable Hunting Tourism - A valuable tool for conservation and sustainable development! | CIC - International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation |
| 09-Oct | 9:30 - 11:00 | Too much of a good thing? Biodiversity, Biofuels and Balancing Agendas | The World Bank |
| 09-Oct | 9:30 - 11:00 | CleanTrade: Threading the Needle of Invasive Species and Trade | Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) |
| 09-Oct | 9:30 - 11:00 | Social License to Operate: challenges and opportunities in engaging local stakeholders in corporate projects in Latin America | Living Earth Foundation UK |
| 09-Oct | 11:30 - 13:00 | Can trade be good for biodiversity? A dialogue | United Nations Environment Programme, Economics and Trade Branch |
| 09-Oct | 11:30 - 13:00 | Rethinking Destination Management and Visitation at World Heritage sites: Partnerships, policies and processes to reduce impacts | IUCN WCPA Task Force on Tourism and Protected Areas |
| 09-Oct | 11:30 - 13:00 | Talking about water: Water Dialogues and the private sector | IUCN - Water Programme |
| 09-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Why should you care about land stewardship and private protected areas? A snapshot of a growing field in conservation | Fundació Territori i Paisatge |
| 09-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | "Travelife" - Helping tourism businesses to improve their sustainability performance and increasing their opportunities in the global marketplace | Federation of Tour Operators |
| 09-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | The Business and Biodiversity Offset Program: What has it achieved and where is it headed? | Forest Trends |
| 09-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Certifying commodities, beauty or beast? | IUCN National Commitee of the Netherlands |
| 09-Oct | 14:30 - 16:00 | Working with forest mangers to ensure sustainable practices. | Rainforest Alliance, Inc. |