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Annex: Case StudiesThis document presents the results of implementation of the IUCN Programme 2009–12 and isintended to provide a representation of IUCN’s work over the four-year period. As this small selectionof case studies demonstrates, the work of IUCN always begins on the ground, in close cooperationwith the distributed Secretariat, Members and Commissions. It is based on these concrete examplesthat IUCN is able to carry out its mission of ‘influencing, encouraging and assisting societiesthroughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use ofnatural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.’Case Studies: Conserving BiodiversityThe Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 and the Aichi TargetsAgainst the background of the world’s failure to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the currentrate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national level as a contribution to poverty alleviationand to the benefit of all life on Earth (the so called 2010 Biodiversity Target) and the documentedcontinuous and increasing deterioration and decline of biodiversity in all its components worldwide,expectations were high regarding the negotiation and adoption of a new global framework to haltbiodiversity loss across all levels and sectors and urgent action was needed.IUCN articulated a clear objective for its policy work: through the preparations for the CBD TenthConference of the Parties (COP10) and for the meeting itself, the development and adoption of astrong, science-based, scalable, achievable yet ambitious Strategic Plan for the CBD for the nextdecade. It was our aim to influence the Parties to the CBD to commit to this strong yet relatively simpleframework at the global level. Immediately following adoption, IUCN offered its support to help“translate” the global targets into national level targets based on national needs assessments.IUCN prepared eight position papers which contained IUCN’s policy recommendations for COP10 onrelevant agenda items. IUCN’s position papers were well received, used as a basis for policydevelopment and were clearly appreciated by Parties. These documents were the result of a largeconsultation process within the Secretariat, involving IUCN’s Commissions, Council and Members.Media, including the BBC World Service to name one, saw IUCN as a source for unbiased andcontinuous information from a range of target media. As an outcome of this process IUCN had directinfluence in shaping Target 2, 5, 11, 12, and 20 and some influence on all of the other targets, byworking behind the scenes with our Members and through interventions made in plenary and contactgroup sessions.IUCN Assists the Birth of IPBESBecause delivering knowledge to inform conservation policies is central in its mandate, IUCN activelyparticipated in the discussions on an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity andEcosystem services (IPBES) since 2005, culminating in the formal establishment of IPBES as anindependent intergovernmental organization in April 2012.Rooted in the collective recognition that knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services is sparselydistributed and is not yet properly utilized in decision making, IPBES has been conceived after acareful and thorough benchmarking of previous global or regional experiences to deliver assessmentsof knowledge, such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the Global Biodiversity Outlooks or,indeed, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.During the negotiations, IUCN contributed substantively by collecting and sharing the lessons learnedfrom decades of delivering knowledge to inform conservation policies, and providing a nongovernmentalperspective in the discussions. In particular, IUCN contributed to the gap analysis whichshowed the need for a mechanism such as IPBES to bridge the science and policy worlds regardingbiodiversity and ecosystem services. IUCN further advocated for the need to collaborate with existingrelevant initiatives and to involve civil society—both considered critically important features for thecredibility and legitimacy of IPBES.IUCN stands ready to cooperate with IPBES and has offered options for administrative and technicalsupport. IUCN also presented its flagship knowledge products and showed how they could serve344