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This is a DG ENV guidance tool prepared by an expert team under IUCN supervision in order to improve understanding of the importance of specific alien species' pathways, seen as critical...

This article provides a rationale for enhanced youth engagement, intergenerational dialogue and intergenerational governance structures within global conservation organizations like the IUCN.

This paper by active IPBES participants reflects on the role of stakeholders in the first work programme of IPBES (2014-2018). It provides an overview of IPBES processes and products relevant to stakeholders...

This study from the Paulson Institute, the Nature Conservancy, and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability (2020) assesses how much is currently spent and how much is needed in the next 10...

This study provides an in-depth analysis of biodiversity as a human right to inform the European Parliament’s work on how the EU’s external action, including trade agreements, can best...

The 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement call for a fundamental rethinking of development models. The European Union has long been committed to tackling climate and environment-related...

Forest production efficiency (FPE) metric describes how efficiently the assimilated carbon is partitioned into plants organs (biomass production, BP) or—more generally—for the production of organic...

Assessing the prospects for Zero Hunger—Sustainable Development Goal 2—requires an understanding of food security that goes beyond developmental or humanitarian issues, to include linkages with geopolitics. Geopolitical challenges...

As anthropogenic climate change continues the risks to biodiversity will increase over time, with future projections indicating that a potentially catastrophic loss of global biodiversity is on the horizon. However...

Forests are increasingly affected by natural disturbances. Subsequent salvage logging, a widespread management practice conducted predominantly to recover economic capital, produces further disturbance...