{"id":11986,"date":"2020-12-15T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/no-category\/iucn-world-conservation-congress-2020-uitgesteld\/"},"modified":"2021-08-03T16:47:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:47:28","slug":"iucn-world-conservation-congress-2020-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/news\/iucn-world-conservation-congress-2020-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020 postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In view of the sanitary situation associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, IUCN\u00a0\u00a0and the French government have decided to postpone the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020. The Congress will now take place from 3 to 10 September 2021.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<p><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\">Header photo: Port of Marseille \u00a9 Elisa Schmidt for Unsplash<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<p>IUCN and the French government made this decision&nbsp;to ensure the safety of participants and visitors&nbsp;of the event. They remain fully committed to making the World Conservation Congress a major event for nature conservation and the development of a new global framework for biodiversity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<p>During&nbsp; the World Conservation Congress, IUCN NL will open its own Pavilion, where Dutch IUCN members and our partner organizations can present their work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the IUCN Congress<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<p>The IUCN Congress &nbsp;brings together the global nature conservation community, including top international experts in conservation science, policy and practice. Held every four years, the Congress allows IUCN&#8217;s 1400 member organisations, including States, civil society and indigenous peoples, to democratically determine the most pressing issues in nature conservation and actions to address them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More information<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucncongress2020.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Website of the IUCN World Conservation Congress<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucncongress2020.org\/newsroom\/postponement-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Q&amp;A about the postponement of the Congress<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In view of the sanitary situation associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, IUCN\u00a0\u00a0and the French government have decided to postpone the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020. The Congress will now take place from 3 to 10 September 2021. Header photo: Port of Marseille \u00a9 Elisa Schmidt for Unsplash IUCN and the French government made this decision&nbsp;to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[191,186,188],"class_list":["post-11986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-members","tag-national-committee","tag-nature-policy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45711,"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986\/revisions\/45711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}