Image: Can we halt biodiversity loss under the economic growth paradigm? Economic growth explicitly prevails in most policies, although it implies large resource consumption and thus amplified pressures on biodiversity. ...
Image: Biodiversity, natural capital and the economy - A policy guide for finance, economic and environment ministers Nature underpins all economic activities and human well-being. It is the worlds most important asset. Yet humanity is destroying biodiversity at an...
Image: Nature-Based Solutions for Restoration of Ecosystems and Sustainable Urban Development Cities are facing a broad range of social and environmental challenges due to the current pressure of global urbanization. Nature-based solutions a...
Image: Evaluating Ecological Restoration Success: A Review of the Literature Assessing the success of ecological restoration projects is critical to justify the use of restoration in natural resource management and to improv...
Image: Barriers to ecological restoration in Europe: expert perspectives Ecological restoration is key to counteracting anthropogenic degradation of biodiversity and to reducing disaster risk. However, there is limited k...
Image: Tree restoration potential in the European Union Inspired by the report and the European Unions new Green Deal, the European Commission Directorate General for Environment (DG ENV) requested the F...
Image: LIFE programme: Short summaries of projects from the LIFE 2019 call for proposals This EU funding for the LIFE programme projects triggered total investments of nearly 590 million to help meet these projects' ambitious goals for ...
Image: Leveraging Public Programmes with Socio-Economic and Development Objectives to Support Conservation and Restoration of Ecosystems The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 recognises that biodiversity underpins ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services ...
Image: NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS: HARNESSING THE POTENTIAL FOR AMBITIOUS POST-2020 BIODIVERSITY OUTCOMES Nature-based solutions offer the transformative, whole-of-society approach needed to achieve the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of bi...
Image: Ecological Restoration – a means of conserving biodiversity and sustaining livelihoods Many of the worlds ecosystems have undergone significant degradation with negative impacts on biological diversity and peoples livelihoods. There i...