Held every four years, the IUCN World Conservation Congress brings together several thousand leaders and decision-makers from government, civil society, indigenous peoples, business and academia, with the goal of conserving the environment and harnessing the solutions nature offers to global challenges.
The Congress aims to improve how we manage our natural environment for human, social and economic development. This cannot be achieved by conservationists alone: the IUCN Congress is the place to put aside differences and work together to create good environmental governance, engaging all parts of society in both the responsibilities and the benefits of conservation.

The IUCN Congress will:
- Define conservation’s role in ‘building back better’ and attaining the Sustainable Development Goals
- Showcase actionable nature-based solutions for addressing climate change
- Inform decisions at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15)