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The report focuses on eight of the SDGs (1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 12, 14 and 15). Contrary to early expectations, the COVID-19 pandemic kept its grip...

The workshop is an e-shape labeled event and will present some of the project’s pilots related to biodiversity and water management.

This study considers the potential for recovery of invertebrate communities in urban streams based on 12 years of data from a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. The researchers report that streams with natural...

Reduced river discharge and flow regulation are significant threats to freshwater biodiversity. An accurate representation of potential damage of water consumption on freshwater biodiversity is required to quantify...

Eurostat provides a range of statistics and accounts about the state of the environment and the drivers, pressures and impacts of our societies on the environment. in this section, you find information about: Air...

Recent revisionist scholarship on the Green Revolution has conclusively established that the assumption of a stagnant food sector in the first two decades after independence is a myth (Balakrishnan, 2007)...

The worldwide interest in cultivating quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa, Willd.) is mainly due to the plant's hardiness and its strong nutritional potential. It is one of the main foods of the Andean...

IIASA and OECD’s capacities to analyse the biodiversity, water, food, and trade systems are illustrated. Studies that would benefit from integration of their approaches, data, and tools are...

Approximately 20% of the Earth’s vegetated surface shows persistent declining trends in productivity, mainly as a result of land/water use and management practices.

The Biomass Futures project assessed the role of bioenergy in meeting Europe's renewable energy targets established by the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive for 2020 and provided outlooks to 2030...