WCC-2025-Res-086 - Progress Report submission form

Submitted by brookst on Sun, 10/18/2026 - 06:38

General Information

Resolution

52736

Period covered

2026

Resolution implementation status

31-60% - Moderate

Comments

Activities in implementation of WCC-2025-Res-086 have focused on CBD engagement, with the intent of supporting uptake of the Policy. The extent of uptake of the Policy across the IUCN Membership is anecdotally proceeding well (reflected by engagement from governments into COP17 side-event on the subject) but to-date hard to evaluate systematically.

Activities to implement this Resolution from Activity Reports

Relevant operative para(s) of Res/Rec	Activities Overview	Description	Status	Action
5	Policy influencing/advocacy	Track CBD agenda item on Synthetic Biology, with a particular view to ensuring coherence, consistency, and cross-reference with IUCN Policy; specific mentions of the IUCN and the Policy are made in the draft COP17 Decision (Synthesis and review of work), and in its Annex I (Thematic Action Plan). To this end, IUCN nominated a WCEL expert to participate in May 2026 AHTEG; and experts from CEM, WCEL & Secretariat into Open-ended Online Forum 2026.	Planned	Full activity report
All	Convene stakeholders/Networking	Side-event organised for CBD COP17 (21 Oct 2026) on "How are CBD Parties using the new IUCN Policy on Synthetic Biology in relation to Nature Conservation?", with speakers from Korea (NIE), Nigeria, Seychelles, and UK (ARIA) Governments and CBD Secretariat, and facilitated by ICGEB	On-going	Full activity report

Actors involved from Activity Reports

IUCN Members	IUCN Commissions	IUCN Secretariat	Other non-IUCN related organisations
No other Members are/have been involved Ministry of Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment ( Seychelles ) Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment ( Republic of Korea ) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland )	No IUCN Commissions involved IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law 2026-2029 IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management 2026-2029	Yes	Government of Nigeria CBD Secretariat ICGEB

Challenges / lessons learned from Activity Reports

Challenges / lessons learned	Description	Action
Other (please specify)	No particular lessons learned to date; activity is ongoing	Full activity report
Other (please specify)	No particular lessons learned (event has not yet taken place at time of reporting)	Full activity report

Report status

Published