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…
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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.
Reconciling biodiversity values in agriculture and Protected Areas
By embracing diverse stakeholder values through participatory approaches, agriculture and biodiversity actors can turn tensions into opportunities for transformative change.
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.
Landscape diversity enhances human health
Diverse agricultural and forest landscapes enhance human physical and mental health. Even small land use changes can introduce health risks into the environment.
Biodiversity promotes healthy agricultural systems and benefits human health
The diversity of functions that insects provide is crucial to sustain agricultural production. Diversity supports wild bee health. Soil microbial diversity can protect crops from disease and insect pests.
Biodiversity mitigates health risks
Biodiversity can mitigate the spread of infectious diseases. Human disruptions alter ecosystems’ ability to protect our health.
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.