Proceedings, Resolutions and Recommendations of the Congress 2008

Dear Members of IUCN,

We are happy to inform you that the final reports from the Members' Assembly of the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2008 in Barcelona are now available on the IUCN website.
You can find the Proceedings of the Members' Assembly under www.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/WCC-4th-004.pdf and the final version of the Resolutions and Recommendations under www.iucn.org/congress_08/assembly/policy/. As a follow up to Resolution 4.011 “Development of an automated system to record members’ actions on Resolutions and Recommendations to improve reporting at and between World Conservation Congresses”, the Secretariat is undertaking appropriate action to expedite the development of such a system and will keep members informed on the development.

Exceptionally, we will send one printed copy of the Proceedings and Resolutions and Recommendations to all member organizations in due course, as they constitute the official legacy of the World Congress. All other documents will continue to be sent electronically to you unless your organization specifically requests hard copies. We would like to take this opportunity to reinvite all members to support us in reducing paper consumption by agreeing to receive all correspondence and information electronically. Please inform the Membership Focal Point in your region in case you have not yet done so.

Please do not forget that you can find all outcomes from the World Conservation Forum, insofar as we have received the information from the individual event organizers, in the Forum Resource Centre under http://208.112.69.59/agenda. The Forum Resource Centre is also where you will find all PowerPoint presentations from the Forum that we were given permission to share. If you still would like to submit your forum events report, please download the form from http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/iucneventrapporten.doc and submit it to forumreports@iucn.org together with any other pdf document that you would like to upload to our web. IUCN is also producing a synthesis publication on the outcomes of the Forum that summarizes the current state of conservation and the big opportunities ahead. This will be available later this year.
Best regards,

Enrique Lahmann
Director, Constituency Support Group