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Executive SummaryFor 2009–12, IUCN organized its Programme around five programme areas and ten broad globalresults. The programme areas covered IUCN’s core work on conserving biodiversity and thematicprogramme areas on climate change, energy, managing ecosystems for human wellbeing and greeneconomy.IUCN’s top five lessons include:• Basic science, such as the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, serves multiple purposes asa global public good.• Policy influence and practical demonstration can create a virtuous circle of action and policyinfluence that is positive for biodiversity and human wellbeing.• IUCN’s proven role of convening local stakeholders and empowering the most vulnerablesegments of society has emerged as a key strategy in a variety of efforts to improve rurallivelihoods while managing and restoring ecosystems.• Nature does provide solutions to the global challenges of economic development, foodsecurity, climate change and disaster risk reduction.• IUCN leverages more knowledge, influence and action as a Union than as a singleorganization.This programme report presents highlights from the 2009–12 period for each programme area.• IUCN’s progress in conserving biodiversity included a rapid expansion in the knowledgeand tools available for biodiversity conservation, particularly from the IUCN Red List ofThreatened Species, conservation planning and action that included species conservation,improvements in the coverage and management effectiveness of protected areas,management and restoration of forest landscapes, watersheds, drylands and mangroveecosystems and policy influencing, particularly in the Convention on Biological Diversity(CBD).• IUCN’s work on climate change focused primarily on influencing the United NationsFramework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and national policy frameworks whilepromoting and demonstrating pro-poor approaches to REDD+ and ecosystem basedadaptation to climate change. The work in this programme area demonstrated how nature canprovide solutions to the challenges posed by climate change.• Progress against the global results for the programme area on energy was modest; however,IUCN was able to have some influence over policy regimes and private sector partners,building support for pro-biodiversity energy regimes.• Most of IUCN’s projects in the field work directly with the rural poor to demonstrate howmanaging ecosystems for human wellbeing can provide tangible benefits. Most of the workwas at the demonstration scale, yielding solid yet modest benefits to target groups; however, itis expected that the techniques demonstrated will be replicated by IUCN Members andpartners.• IUCN made modest but promising gains on greening the world economy, particularly inbuilding the knowledge base on the economic value of biodiversity, while influencing privatesector companies to improve their performance.As an organization, IUCN made significant progress in growing the network and effectivecommunications:330