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Biodiversity is essential for preserving the health and stability of ecosystems, fostering a delicate ecological balance that ensures nature's ability to provide essential resources such as food, clean air...

This briefing summarises some of the ways in which climate change is impacting Europe’s marine ecosystems. It identifies how various ecosystem features are influenced by climate...

This report highlights the challenges involved in financing nature-based projects and draws on the EIB’s experience in implementing the Natural Capital Finance Facility pilot programme in Europe and interviews with key...

A global circular economy will allow us to fulfil people's needs with only 70% of the materials we now extract and use—moving human activity back within...

This article highlights the need for assessing the effects of policy measures to address deforestation, pollution and child labour in global supply chains, in particular through due-diligence requirements. It...

This report is a first step in addressing knowledge gaps in the potential economic benefits of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and the challenges facing Nature Based Enterprises (NBE). Based on extensive...

The New Circular Economy Action Plan (Commission, 2020) mandates increasing recycling rates for several waste streams, e.g., plastic waste or municipal biowaste. There...

The bioeconomy is gaining growing attention as a perceived win-win strategy for environment and economy in the EU. However, the EU already has a disproportionately high global cropland footprint compared...