Biodiversity Assessment Articles & Analysis
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Credible Metrics Across Key Impact Areas Product Claims provides comprehensive assessments across three critical dimensions: Carbon Emissions (CO₂e KG): Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions throughout the entire product lifecycle. Land Use (m²): Measuring surface area used, considering both intensity and regional biodiversity sensitivity. Water System Impact ...
Seeking a revolution in freshwater aquaculture This article was featured in Eurofish Magazine 3 2024 SmartAqua4FuturE (SAFE) is an ambitious project funded by Horizon Europe that aims to revolutionise freshwater aquaculture. The project seeks to make freshwater aquaculture more environmentally friendly while increasing its financial stability by introducing circular economy approaches. The ...
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The EIA Blueprint: Key Steps for Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Plant Projects 1. Preliminary Site Assessment The journey towards obtaining an EIA begins with a comprehensive preliminary site assessment. ...
IWRA recognises ongoing global water security issues as a major challenge, and addresses them in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals in close collaboration with international organisations and key ...
Setting the scene Human wellbeing and survival depend on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals recognize that efforts to eliminate poverty and inequality must go hand in hand with strategies to tackle climate change, ecosystem degradation, biodiversity loss, food and water insecurity, and spread of disease. Fundamental human rights may depend on access ...
The UN demands urgent action on biodiversity. Sustainable hydropower can be part of the solution, writes Alain Kilajian of the International Hydropower Association ...
From IPCC to IPBES Seven years after its official launch, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), sometimes called the “IPCC for biodiversity”, released its Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on May 6 2019. KEY MESSAGES N° 06 MAY 2019 (From ...
In biodiversity assessments, especially of small‐bodied organisms for which taxonomic expertise is lacking, identification by genetic barcoding may be a cost‐effective and efficient alternative to traditional identification of species by morphology, ecology and behavior. Here we test the feasibility and accuracy of such an approach using dung insects of ...
However, in 2011 a Working Group on Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES WG) was set up under the Common Implementation Framework (CIF), the governance structure to underpin the effective delivery of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. ...
The 'sparsely vegetated land' ecosystem has the highest proportion of Habitats Directive assessments as favourable, although its proportion of secure bird assessments is the lowest. ...
The biodiversity status of fishes was assessed according to International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) criteria from Shimsha River in Karnataka. ...
In this paper, we identify 5 research topics that are key to bridge this gap: the refinement of population‐level effects and recovery rates by explicitly taking into account competition (1) and predation (2); the assessment of chemical effects on biodiversity (3); the assessment of chemical stress on ecosystem functions and services (4); and the ...
A focus on citizen science monitoring for biodiversity is very timely for several reasons. Firstly, the acceleration of threats to biodiversity makes it critical to detect biodiversity trends quickly, which will require large volumes of data. ...
Introduction This biodiversity assessment is integrating our knowledge on species, habitats and protected areas into the complex issues of ecosystem management, ecosystem services, human health and wellbeing. ...
The present report considers the status and trends of pan-European biodiversity, and the implications of these trends for biodiversity management policy and practice. It considers the key biodiversity policy instruments currently applied in Europe, the threats to biodiversity and their management implications across major habitat ...
The Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) is a single entry point for data and information on biodiversity in the EU. Bringing together facts and figures on biodiversity and ecosystem services, it links to related policies, environmental data centres, assessments and research findings from various sources. ...
Summary At the 2007 meeting of the environment ministers of the G8+5 in Potsdam, Germany, the European Commission launched The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study. Its aim is to assess the economic repercussions of global biodiversity loss. ...
This new angle means that questions about the costs of biodiversity loss to society have become paramount. This report focuses on ways we can use land and ecosystem accounting techniques to describe and monitor the consequences of biodiversity loss in the coastal wetlands of the Mediterranean. ...
The scope covers specific types of damage to protected species or natural habitats (i.e., biodiversity), as defined in the EU Habitats and Wild Bird Directives2; surface water or groundwater bodies, as defined in the EU Water Framework Directive3; and human health risks from land contamination. ...
As the first indicator-based assessment of progress towards the European target of halting biodiversity loss by 2010, this report serves two purposes. ...