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This study by external experts (commissioned by DG ENV) takes stock of knowledge relevant for identifying commodities imported into the EU with significant negative impacts (direct or indirect) on biodiversity...

The recently adopted ‘Sendai Framework for Action on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030’ sets the goals to reduce loss of life, livelihood and critical infrastructure through enhanced national...

This report provides guidance to Member States in improving the coherence and completeness of the national disaster damage and loss data recording process, necessary for supporting evidence-based disaster risk...

On 3 September 2015 the Commission adopted the Multi-annual Implementation Plan of the EU Forest Strategy which provides a concrete list of actions in order to ensure a coherent, coordinated...

This book provides an evaluation of measures to reduce exposure to highly toxic and carcinogenic contaminants in staple diets in Africa as well as parts of Asia and Latin America. Many of the poorest...

This technical note summarizes the feasibility study which was performed in response to a request by the European Research Area Committee (ERAC)’s Working Group on Monitoring the ERA Roadmap...

This State of Knowledge Review synthesises the available information on the inter-linkages between biodiversity, ecosystem stability, and epidemic infectious diseases such as the Ebola virus; and the connection between biodiversity...

The present JRC audit endorses the statistical soundness and reliability of the GII index as a benchmarking tool for innovation practices at the country level around the world. Needless to say, the usefulness...

The Global Forest Trade Model (GFTM) is a partial equilibrium model of the global forest sector, with a European focus. GFTM shares the classical economic-mathematical formulation used by similar...

This study, prepared by external experts (2015), proposes an approach for tracking biodiversity in the EU budget for 2014-2020, based on the OECD Rio markers methodology. Part I provides...