Soil biodiversity management
Climate change affects soil life differently across regions, requiring targeted, function-focused, and context-aware management to balance biodiversity, productivity, and farming needs…
Living systems, living solutions
Nature-based solutions, when grounded in local knowledge and participation, offer effective ways to address Europe’s climate, biodiversity, and land use challenges…
Mainstreaming resilience in forest policy
Diversifying forests, aligning governance and finance, and improving data systems are key to making Europe’s forests more resilient to climate change…
Harnessing early-warning systems and predictive scenarios
Predictive scenarios and innovative monitoring offer powerful tools to anticipate changes, reduce biodiversity loss, and build a more resilient future.
The ability of scenarios to develop cross-sectoral capacities and support foresight and anticipatory governance in ensuring ecosystem resilience
This policy brief shows how scenarios focused on biodiversity can map potential pathways to enhance ecosystem resilience.
Nitrogen pollution and climate change reduce carbon storage and biodiversity of peatlands
This brief is based on findings of the PEATBOG project, illustrates a “win-win” between biodiversity-conservation and climate-change mitigation.
Adaptation of trees and forests to climate change: the importance of genetic variability
This brief is derived from the LinkTree project, which examined the genetic variation within forest tree populations in five European countries, and assessed how this variability and its management could help forests adapt to environmental changes.
Conservation of small mammals and associated ecosystems: the importance of European policies and actions
This brief is based on the Ecocycles research results, treats of the importance of European policies (for example, the Common Agricultural Policy, the EU Strategy on Climate Adaptation) and actions in the context of the conservation of small mammals and other species which depend on them.
Conservation of threatened insects in Europe: managing habitats for land use and climate change adaptation
This brief builds on the conclusions from the CLIMIT project focusing on the conservation of threatened and vulnerable insects in the context of changing land use and climate.
Measures to increase ecosystem resilience and avoid tipping points
This brief presents how the results from the TipTree, TIPPINGPOND and EC21C projects allow characterization of tipping points for two types of European ecosystems, forests and ponds.