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Protected areas (PAs) and other effective areas-based conservation measures (OECMs) are a cornerstone of biodiversity conservation that concurrently provide multiple co-benefits for achievement of the Sustainable Development...

Released by the CBD on 12 July 2021, this first draft of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework proposes four goals for 2050 in line with the vision of humanity “living in harmony...

This report sets out science-based principles on natural resource management informed by the research of UNEP's International Resource Panel (IRP).

This report presents the case for why we all must throw our weight behind a global restoration effort. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence (2021), it...

This publication from Global Canopy (2021), which includes a set of case studies, aims to help governments, NGOs, the private sector and others to compare options for financing conservation...

This briefing from the Institute for European Environmental Policies (IEEP) gives an overview of the state of knowledge and current application of biodiversity footprint methods and tools in the EU and identifies key future...

This Policy Paper, prepared by the OECD for the G7 Presidency of the UK (2021), analyses four priority action areas for governments. The fourth priority area is about improving biodiversity...

This is an independent, global review on the Economics of Biodiversity by Professor Partha Dasgupta (Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge). It was commissioned in 2019 by HM Treasury...

The Amazon forest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, which houses about 10% of the Earth’s biodiversity and 16% of the world’s total river discharge into the oceans. However, the Amazon...

The EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System is pursuant to the Action 3.3.2 of the EU Bioeconomy Strategy (COM/2018/673). It addresses the need for a comprehensive monitoring system by establishing a mechanism to measure...