The document outlines the objectives and themes of the 6th World Parks Congress held in Sydney from November 12-19, 2014, focusing on the integration of protected areas into economic and community well-being, biodiversity conservation, and addressing global challenges. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration across sectors, capacity building, and promoting protected areas as solutions for issues like climate change and food security. The congress includes a structured program with various streams addressing critical topics, aiming to foster significant outcomes and establish a legacy for sustainable development.

1. Parks, people, planet
I n s p i r i n g
s o l u t i o n s
12-19 N o v e mb e r , 2014

2. • Position protected areas within goals of
economic and community wellbeing
• Achieve understanding of their vital role in
conserving biodiversity while delivering
ecosystem services
• Demonstrate how this can be achieved.
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i n i mp l e me n t a t i o n

3. • Communicate the most compelling and
inspiring solutions to global challenges
• Position protected areas in the post-2015
sustainable development agenda
• Reach new commitments and capacity across
conservation, development and business sectors
for implementation
A c h i e v i n g
s i g n i f i c a n t
o u t c o me s a n d l e g a c y

4. Parks:
I n s p i r i n g p l a c e s
Strengthen policy and
action commitments for
the expansion, connectivity
and better management of
protected areas to cover all
terrestrial & marine areas
important for biodiversity
and ecosystem services

5. People:
I n s p i r i n g i d e a s
Engage and build
capacity for a diverse
constituency and range of
partners to support,
govern , manage and
benefit from protected
areas

6. Planet:
I n s p i r i n g
s o l u t i o n s
Explore and promote parks
and protected areas as
natural solutions to global
challenges such as climate
change, food and water
security, health and a green
economy

7. • Aichi Targets reached
• Solutions implemented
• Capacity developed
• Policy changes
• Legacy established
Measures of success

9. • International Steering Committee
• Co-Chairs Julia Marton-Lefevre (IUCN)
• Ernesto Enkerlin Hoeflich (WCPA)
• Parks Australia, NSW. IUCN
• Programme Working Group
• Streamleaders & CCTs
• Fundraising WG
• Communications WG
• Management Committee (IUCN,
Australian hosts)
Governance of WPC

11. • 8 Streams and 4 Cross-cutting themes
• Work with Programme Working Group to develop
Core Programme of all 8 Streams
• Integrate cross-cutting themes in Streams
• Invited contributions for ideas and content -
• Confirm nominations and ideas for key-note speakers
• Draft plan for stream sessions (by 28 May) and then
finalized by September
• Joint review of whole programme by ISC
Process for Developing Programme

12. Stream 1 Conservation Goals
Representation and
numerical targets
Connectivity
Areas of importance
For Biodiversity
Effective Management
Beyond Aichi Targets
What Nature Needs?
• Protected Planet –
progress on CBD T11
• Green List
• Global Discussion of
Wildlife Trade & PAs
• Predicting
Biodiversity Outcomes
• Improving PAs as tool
to stem BD loss
• Marine targets

13. Stream 2 Climate Change
•Demonstrate how PAs help people &
ecosystems respond to CC.
• Explore new knowledge, BP and
tools for adaptation and decision
making
• Engage cultures, communities, and
cities that rely on natural environ-
ments for food, resources & services.
• Develop and share effective CC
communication techniques.
• Contribute to vision for an integrated
network of PA systems
• Sectors: Sessions highlight
water, conservation,
governance, local and
indigenous communities,
finance, species and
ecosystem vulnerability,
science, management,
communication, and
adaptation.
• Best Practices Guidelines
• Social media campaign

14. Stream3: Improving Health and Well-
being, Healthy Parks, Healthy People
•Promoting the Health of
People, Species & the Planet
•Science and Traditional
Knowledge
• Inspiring practical solutions
•Sectoral engagement: health,
insurance
•Healthy Ecosystems: invasive
alien species
•Global and regional policy
• Engagement: Health
Sector, Youth,
Thought Leaders
• Pop-‐up park
• Legacy goals (science,
practice, policy)
• BP Guidelines
• HPHP congress USA
July 2015
• Input to SDGs 2015

15. Stream 4: Supporting Human Life
•Food security, nutrition and
Genetic resources
• Water and watersheds
• Disaster risk reduction
• Socio-‐economic and
Ecosystem services of PAs for
Sustainable development
• Documentation, case
studies, guidelines,
capacity materials
• Develop global,
regional, and country
projects to implement
• Food security, Water
DRR in policies, plans
& management of PA
systems
• Messages to
international policy
fora: Hyogo, SDGs
• .

16. Stream 5: Reconciling development
g
•PAs integrated in national and
economic planning
• PAs embedded in system of
inclusive and effective
governance
• Sustainable finance for PA
• Responsible investments and
sustainable supply chains within
functional landscapes
• PAs as natural/green
infrastructure
• Agreement on role of PAs
development challenges
• Commitment by key
private sectors to integrate
PAs in industrial decisions
• Government recognition of
PA values and benefits
• Private investment in the
economic efficiency of Pas
to support development
• Economic valuation
• Input to SDGs

17. 6. Enhancing quality & diversity of
Understanding Governance
Need for Good Governance
Consolidating and
implementing existing
agreements
Governance and sustainable
use, food security, tenure
Advancing Governance frontier
– marine, high seas
• Improving the governance
of nature:
• Preparing for challenges
ahead
• Inspiring solutions
• Better governed
landscapes & seascapes as
models for sustainability
• Systematic governance
assessment of PA systems
and sites
Governance

18. Stream 7 Indigenous Peoples
•Role of traditional knowledge
and practices, in sustaining
socio-‐ecological and economic
resilience of Indigenous Peoples
in PAs in land and seascapes
•Indigenous leadership & rights
•Resilience and livelihoods,
•Sacred natural sites,
•Sectoral engagement: fisheries,
tourism, forestry, agriculture
• Recognition of
culturally-driven
approaches to PA
management
• International resource
commitments
• Capacity building for
indigenous land/sea
managers

19. Stream 8 Inspiring A New Generation
Connecting a New Generation
– innovative tools & park
experiences
Investing in Children
Empowering Inspired Young
People
New exciting Technology
Education, Arts, Media,
Journalism
• Pre-Congress Young
No-Walls
Ambassadors
• No Walls Initiative –
innovative content
• Post WPC – Growth of
No Walls through
cross-sectoral links:
artists, entrepreneurs,
engineers, chefs,

20. Cross-Cutting Themes
•Marine, World Heritage,
Capacity Development, New
Social Compact
•Full integration in Streams
•Geographical and thematic
balance in Streams
•Capacity needs and sessions
throughout WPC
•CEESP-led New Social Compact
theme
• Input to Legacy and
Sydney Promise
• Promoting the Marine
Agenda
• Marine and WH
Special Events
• New Social Compact
• Strong post Congress
Capacity Development

21. Capacity Development Legacy
• Pre-Congress Activities/Products – link to BIOPAMA
• Pre-and Post Congress Study Tours (Australia National
Committee working with Park agencies)
• 1.5 days workshops/trainings Sydney before Congress
(onsite??/offsite)
• Capacity development sessions during Congress
• Other Related Events e.g. Urban
• Post Congress Follow-up/Legacy/Institution

22. Congress Timetable

23. World Protected Area
Leadership Dialogues
• The most pressing issues of the decade ahead
• High level panels involving global thought leaders,
business leaders, community & youth leaders
 Wildlife Crime and Illegal trade
 Resource mobilisation and sustainable finance
 Global consumption patterns
 Food security
 Social equity
 Resilience

24. • Key messages from big international events into
Plenary e.g. IMPAC3
• Side events – closing date 12 May
• Side event spaces onsite – lunchtime, evening
• E- Posters
• Pavilions, Country Stands
• Parallel Events offsite
• Sponsor Participants
• Process for compilation of the elements of the
Sydney Promise (input from other international
events e.g. Europarc, APC, Pacific Conference)
Other Opportunities to Engage

25. The Promise of Sydney
•Transformative solutions at the level of policy,
•Engagement & PA practice for parks, people & planet
•A web-based resource of case studies embedded in
communities of practice
• A capacity-development plan of action that supports
professionalism for protected areas “managers”
• Principles for a New Social Compact for just and
equitable conservation;
• Leadership initiatives, pledges and announcements for
implementation.

26. Process to develop Promise
• A template for Streams to capture an ambitious
strategy for transformative action, stating a vision and
recommending an approach for the decade
• Prepared in advance and provided to participants
• A source of issues for debate and discussion
• An opportunity to propose new elements during
• workshops
• Compiled as a result of discussions and finalised at
the stream level and theme level
• Fed into sub-plenary discussions on the last day
• Presented in summary form in closing plenary

27. • First Call for Content – closed March 15
• Streamleaders developing content – integrating CCTs:
see www.worldparkscongress.org
• Communications key messages and communication
strategy developed – see GPAP newsletter
• Fundraising prospects and Stream needs e.g. Success
with GEF, MacArthur, Rockefeller
• Logistics and planning together with the Congress
Preparation Team
Current activities

28. Key Dates
• Ist Call for Content Closed March 15
• Stream, CCT, PWG reviews May 28
•Notifications of acceptance June 1
• Earlybird Registration June 30
• Reserve notifications July 10 (register by July31)
• Call for Roles (facilitators, translators) April 28
•Sponsorship applications close April 30
• Side Events Call closing date May 12, notify June 30
• sideevents@worldparkscongress.org
• Field trips bookings September 30

29. Parks, People, Planet
I n s p i r i n g
S o l u t i o n s
S y d n e y , 12-19 N o v e mb e r
2014
http://worldparkscongress.org/
http//www.iucn.org/wcpa
Earlybird registration 30 June 2014
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