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The fabric of life on Earth is unravelling, and this decade will be crucial in exacerbating this trajectory or bending it. Professor Sandra Diaz will explore three major factors that have contributed ...

The Natural History Museum has built the first version of an online tool that aims to make it easy for policymakers and researchers to find, understand and explore data on one of ...

Welcome back to the new series of Biodiversity Coffee Seminars! Today we’ll be hearing from colleagues at the Natural History Museum. The NHM is developing a Biodiversity Indicators Portal that will aid policymakers, evidence ...

Recent years have seen a significant step-change in attention to biodiversity as a political priority for governments worldwide. With the United Nations Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the UK Environment Bill on ...

The vast majority of extractive and productive activities undergo planning and application processes and are subject to regulation. Despite this, habitat loss and degradation are still the primary causes of global biodiversity ...

When it comes to informing and scrutinizing policy for biodiversity, are we doing enough? In the third seminar of this series, we introduce and respond to critical provocations on the possible future ...

Policymaking for biodiversity is an international affair. From the conferences of the United Nations to local offices of Non-Governmental Organisations across the world, there are a diverse range of entry points for ...

Brazil is going through extremely concerning crises that need more of the world’s attention. In 2020, the country registered the highest level of deforestation of the Amazon in 12 years. The spike in deforestation ...

Recent years have seen a significant step-change in attention to biodiversity as a political priority for governments worldwide. This year is due to culminate in the agreement of the United Nations Post-2020 ...

Ordinarily, the Oxford Networks for the Environment (ONE) invite an external speaker to give the keynote lecture at their annual event. But, because this year’s occasion was also the launch of Oxford ...