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The EU is setting up a dedicated Science Service to provide decision makers with timely research-based options for policymaking on biodiversity.

This infographic describes how the EU works with IPBES to facilitate policy that supports science, and science that supports policy.

This report describes the maps on tree species distribution routinely produced at Joint Research Centre, and the data sets used to produce them. Its aim is to help those...

A European Commission initiative providing environmental research findings in an easy-to-understand way.

This study suggests that marine reserves that are highly protected (no-take) and designed to optimize connectivity, size and depth range can provide an effective conservation strategy for fished...

Agricultural biodiversity (or agro-biodiversity) includes all the animal, plant and micro-organism species that sustain agricultural ecosystems, and the variety between and within them, and is essential to food and nutrition...

The Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) provides a common framework to ensure that ocean science can fully support countries’ actions to sustainably manage the Oceans.

The uptake of anthropogenic CO 2 by the global ocean induces fundamental changes in seawater chemistry that could have dramatic impacts on biological ecosystems in the upper ocean. Estimates...