IUCN Urban Alliance: Basic Documents

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IUCN Resolution 6.029, Incorporating urban dimensions of conservation in the work of IUCN, adopted by the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress, calls for the IUCN Council to "establish an 'IUCN Urban Alliance', chaired by a member of Council and composed of Members and units of Commissions and the Secretariat concerned with urban dimensions of conservation, and charge it with assisting Members, Council, the  Director General, Commissions and National and Regional Committees in carrying out the purposes of this Resolution."

IUCN Resolution 7.067, Call for Nature in Cities agendas and strengthening the IUCN Urban Alliance, adopted by the 2020 IUCN World Conservation Congress, includes the following language:

In its preambulatory clauses:

"RECALLING that further to Resolution 6.029 Incorporating urban dimensions of conservation into the work of IUCN (Hawai‘i, 2016), the IUCN Urban Alliance was launched in September 2018 as a coalition of IUCN constituents concerned with urban dimensions of nature conservation, chaired by an IUCN Councillor and including three IUCN Commission Chairs on its strategic board; and
"NOTING that, in its initial phase of development, the IUCN Urban Alliance has focused on three priorities: creating a platform for knowledge exchange and debate, catalysing new projects and partnerships, and developing a new knowledge product – the Urban Nature Index – with the aim of helping cities to measure, value and conserve nature within and beyond their boundaries . . ." 

In its operative clauses:

"4. CALLS ON the Director General to champion the work and further development of a strong IUCN Urban Alliance through supporting its activities, including:
a. developing and promoting the Urban Nature Index knowledge product;
b. establishing science-based targets work to measure and understand the positive and negative impacts that cities have on ecosystems and natural, geological and biological diversity, around the world;
c. compiling and developing case studies of nature-based urban interventions and solutions that have resulted in tangible benefits to the health and well-being of urban people and nature and overall to resilient city management;

d. promoting research into ways of scaling up and extending the implementation of such case studies, and ensuring they are widely communicated through platforms such as #NatureForALL, Panorama Solutions and CitiesWithNature, as well as other communication and education alternatives and strategies, including to decision makers; and
e. reviewing and strengthening the governance arrangements of the IUCN Urban Alliance, including enabling the chair to be drawn from Members, Commissions or Council;  "