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Report on the current performance of the shared management component of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) and its impact on the Common Fisheries Policy

Soils host diverse communities that support and regulate ecosystem functions, thereby affecting plant production and resource use efficiencies. There is increasing evidence that agricultural intensification...

This UNCCD technical report presents the results of an analysis of the key elements of the LDN framework developed by the UNCCD, the LDN voluntary commitments adopted by countries and the CBD and its Strategic...

Report (2019) from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions.

Highlights Local preferences for food security approaches involve a mix of global discourses. Current policy and most stakeholders favor conventional agricultural intensification. Only green...

Ecosystem services (ES) accounts are essential to quantify and monitor the contribution of ecosystems to human well-being. The System of Environmental and Economic Accounting – Experimental Ecosystem Accounting...

This paper assesses how the norms defining Secretariats' functions differ and also reflect on actual functions for three MEAs, namely (1) CITES (2) CBD and (3)...

This paper traces the forces underlying paradigm shifts in biodiversity conservation, presenting global conservation governance as configured via constantly shifting assemblages of state and non-state actors, devices...

This study explores whether polycentric regional clusters can provide the ‘missing link’ for achieving global ocean governance objectives. Regional approaches are prominent in the 2030...

This publication describes the ongoing work of the Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative (GOBI), a voluntary group of marine institutions and scientists dedicated to conserving and protecting marine biodiversity, in particular...