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Report on the 2024 Global Congress

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Recordings

High-Level Program

CF4: Roundtable on Biodiversity Credits

Conservation Finance

LP4: The Role of Permanence in Conservation Agreements

Conservation Law and Policy

LS5: Honoring and Elevating Indigenous Roles in Conservation and Stewardship

Land Stewardship and Management

OG5: Nature Needs us to Scale-Up: Are you ready?

Organization and Governance

Large Landscape Conservation

2024 Conservation Visionary Awards

Chief Anne Richardson

Grand Chief Mandy Gull-Masty

Read the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy press release here.

About the Congress

In December 2022, representatives from countries around the world came together in Montreal, at the United Nations Biodiversity COP 15, to agree upon a global target to protect 30 percent of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030 (the 30×30 target). This was an immense call to action. Rising to this challenge requires increased capacity at every scale and across all sectors of society, and will take unprecedented partnership and collaboration.

Congress Goals

Accordingly, the 2024 ILCN Global Congress will bring together experts and practitioners who are advancing a ‘whole of society’ effort towards realizing 30×30, and will build the capacity and coherence of civic (NGO and non-profit) and private sector conservation organizations to complement and partner effectively with public sector, academic, Indigenous and other essential sectors engaged in land conservation on six continents.

Inspired by the landscapes of Quebec, Canada, the 2024 Global Congress program will have an overarching theme of “Relationships for a Resilient World.” Congress plenary, workshop and panel speakers will focus on how meaningful, ethical and equitable relationships are vital to our ability to secure sustainable financing for conservation, and how to achieve effective long-term stewardship of conserved areas. Our goals for the Global Congress are as follows:

  • Build, through case studies and discussions, a better community-of-practice understanding of how regional conservation and climate partnerships can bring together a broad spectrum of conservation organizations to achieve ambitious regional funding and land stewardship objectives
  • Recognize the achievements of the Canadian private and civic conservation community of practice on an international stage
  • Equip private and civic land conservation organizations with the ideas, tools, and innovative practices they need to support 30×30 and address challenges associated with climate change;
  • Facilitate the ability of private and civic conservation initiatives to report their achievements to the World Conservation Monitoring Center (WCMC) and to potentially be identifiable in the IUCN’s Protected Planet database, and
  • Help build productive and lasting relationships among Congress participants and between practitioners from around the world, leading to continued knowledge exchange, sharing of expertise, and sense of global community.

Why Canada?

The ILCN will co-host the 2024 Global Congress with the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), Canada’s leading land conservation organization.

Canada is a leader in the creation and management of private and civic land conservation organizations engaged in the protection of more than one hundred million hectares of protected lands across the nation. Canada is also at the forefront of a movement to advance Indigenous-led conservation in the spirit of reconciliation.

The Congress is an important opportunity for the global private and civic land conservation community to exchange innovations and best practices, and to bring that learning to nations around the world.

The conservation through reconciliation approach recognizes the importance of the Indigenous-led conservation movement and the imperative for cultural respect, equality in value and practice of diverse conservation systems.

Keynote Plenary: Powering Conservation by Investing in Partnerships

 

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Global Congress Archive

Proceedings and outcomes from past ILCN Global Congresses are available at the links below.

2021 Global Congress

ILCN Online

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2018 Global Congress

Santiago

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2015 Global Congress

Berlin

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