Central Stage - Announcement of the host country for the IUCN World PCA Congress 2027

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12/10/2025
17:30 - 18:10
CS-Nature-Climate-People Nexus , Hybrid
Session with interpretation

Why attend

Join us for an exciting announcement for the next World Protected and Conserved Areas Congress - participants will be the first to hear where WPCAC 2027 will take place!

Session Description

Join IUCNs Director General and other high-level speakers to learn about the venue and priorities of WPCAC 2027. The IUCN World Protected and Conserved Areas Congress 2027 (WPC 27) will be a critical milestone for global conservation, arriving at a time of ecological urgency and profound societal shifts. Since the last Congress in Sydney, Australia in 2014, climate impacts, biodiversity decline, inequality, and socio-political fragmentation have worsened. At the current pace, global temperatures are projected to reach the 1.5°C threshold by 2040. WPC 27 will take place in the final years towards meeting the 2030 targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and will be uniquely positioned to help reverse these trends, setting an ambitious agenda for the decades ahead.
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Speaker

Speaker Astrid SCHOMAKER

Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Speaker Ursula PARRILLA

Regional Director, IUCN Secretariat

Speaker Grethel AGUILAR ROJAS

Director General, IUCN

Speaker Marc MAGAUD

Director, Global Convenings and Events, IUCN Secretariat

Speaker Juan Carlos NAVARRO

Ministro de Medio Ambiente, Panama

Moderator

Speaker Trevor SANDWITH

Director - IUCN Centre for Conservation Action, IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature

Host

Speaker Thierry LEFEBVRE

Green List Programme Manager, IUCN Secretariat

Speaker Roxana Elena BUCIOACA

Portfolio Manager, Protected and Conserved Areas, IUCN