IUCN Leaders Forum Changemakers: Application 2024

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Short Biography: Please provide a brief description of yourself, including your current role, achievements and aspirations. Please highlight specifically how your professional background aligns with the mission and vision of IUCN.

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The theme of the IUCN Leaders Forum 2024 is Harnessing innovation, enabling conservation. Please tell us about a project / initiative you are implementing, and would like to pitch at the upcoming IUCN Leaders Forum, that offers:

an innovative solution to addressing the nature, climate and biodiversity crises, and/or
includes nature at the nexus of one or more societal challenges (e.g. energy-nature-climate nexus; food-agriculture-nature-climate nexus; transforming urban landscapes for nature and people etc.)
is technological, people-centric, financial (or other) focused, addressing a particular challenge in your society or community

What makes your solution innovative and unique?

How does your innovation contribute to the transformative change needed to achieve the global goals for nature and climate?

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Project/initiative type 'Other' please specify

What type of product or service are you developing as a project/initiative output? (E.g. a training / capacity development tool, a platform, an app etc .)

At what stage is your project/initiative?

Project/initiative stage 'Other' please specify

How long have you been working on this project/initiative?

Which of these options best describes the scale of this project's (or initiative's) impact?

How are you measuring the impact of your project/initiative? Please provide the specific metrics you use to measure the impact of your project/initiative.

Why do you wish to attend the IUCN Leaders Forum Geneva 2024? Please elaborate on what it is you hope to gain out of participating in the Forum as a changemaker, and how you believe the experience will help you advance your innovation and its contributions to the global goals for nature.

At the IUCN Leaders Forum, selected changemakers will have an opportunity to pitch their innovative solutions to corporate leaders and partners attending the event. If you had this opportunity, what would you be asking for? Briefly describe the ‘ask’ and to whom you would address it, e.g. corporate partner, government or sub-national government entity.

Please provide any links to websites, blogs or social media accounts that you believe are relevant to your application. If you have received any nature conservation, sustainable development or related awards for your leadership in this field, please provide the links to those below.

Please provide any links to websites, blogs or social media accounts that you believe are relevant to your application. If you have received any nature conservation, sustainable development or related awards for your leadership in this field, please provide the links to those below.
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Are you affiliated with an IUCN Member Organisation(s)?

Which IUCN member organisation(s) are you affiliated with?

Are you a member of any IUCN Commission(s)?

Which IUCN Commission(s) are you a member of?

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IUCN Leaders Forum Changemakers: Application 2024

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an innovative solution to addressing the nature, climate and biodiversity crises, and/or

includes nature at the nexus of one or more societal challenges (e.g. energy-nature-climate nexus; food-agriculture-nature-climate nexus; transforming urban landscapes for nature and people etc.)

is technological, people-centric, financial (or other) focused, addressing a particular challenge in your society or community

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