IUCN - The World Conservation Union Programme on protected areas/CNPPA 1993 annual report

1994
2012 lived up to its promise of being one of the busiest years for the global environmental community. From the birth of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) to the Rio+20 conference, and from UN climate and biodiversity meetings to IUCNs own World Conservation Congress, our Union certainly had our hands full this year.