The boreal forest is a green belt that significantly determines the percentage of CO₂ in the global atmosphere and, consequently, global temperature.
Regions4 aims to be the global voice of sub-national governments in the negotiations of the United Nations, the European Union and global debates on climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development.
The mountain pine forest (Pinus uncinata) on calcareous soils in the Pyrenees is a habitat of priority interest for the European Union. That is why the scientific project Life Uncinata aims to preserve it, restore it and make it more resilient.
The key words in Syrian-born researcher Angham Daiyoub’s speech are environmental justice, forest, biodiversity, women, armed conflict and conservation. Not necessarily in this order, but
The outcome of the COP15 negotiations is a global agreement to restore the planet’s biodiversity, the “Kunmin-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework”. We summarise the package of 23 measures planned for before 2030 and the 4 targets for 2050.
CREAF researcher Lluís Brotons participated in a meeting organised by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in South Africa. The conference focused on how to project, evaluate and protect the future of nature concerning three axes: nature as culture, as a service to society and as a value in itself.
It will do so thanks to a CREAF delegation teamed up with Alícia Pérez-Porro, CREAF scientific coordinator, Lluís Brotons, CSIC researcher at CREAF, and CREAF researchers Sergi Herrando and Daniel Villero, all of them will be in Canada from 9 to 16 December.
Science-informed policy action is necessary to protect biodiversity loss. In this context and with this intention, from today the European BioAgora project contributes specialized research in biodiversity to generate new knowledge, process the existing one and inform political decision-making at a European level.
iodiversity loss is undeniable, but at what rate? Why? How does it affect us? And what can we do? The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has been answering these questions since its creation in 2012.
Olga Boet, Angham Daiyoub, Oriol Lapiedra and Daniel Sol recall the great legacy of the biologist and entomologist Edward Osborne Wilson, a source of inspiration for our field of study.
