Achieving global biodiversity goals makes a big difference for nature and people
By meeting the 2030 targets in the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) the world’s forest and other natural land would increase by 3 million km 2 (roughly the size of India) by 2050 compared to today...
Book launch: A history of the Global Environment Outlook
On 1 June 2022, the book ‘Keeping the World’s Environment under Review: An Intellectual History of the Global Environment Outlook’ will be launched. The event is organised by The Integrated Assessment...
Chronic Land Degradation: UN Offers stark warnings and practical remedies in Global Land Outlook 2
According to the Global Land Outlook 2 up to 40 % of the planet’s land is degraded which directly affects half of humanity and threatens roughly half of global GDP (USD 44 trillion). If business as...
The biodiversity-related role of the financial sector requires an integrated approach with climate
In their report ‘ From Paris to Kunming - Enabling a carbon net zero and nature-positive financial sector’, the Sustainable Finance Lab, Utrecht University, at the request of PBL Netherlands...
New global biodiversity policy framework for 2030 central topic at upcoming meetings of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity
Most of the biodiversity targets that were agreed on by the United Nations for 2020 have not been achieved, with the exception of a few, such as the area of protected land. This was concluded by the...
Looking back on the PBL Academy Lecture: Biodiversity from an integral perspective
How can we enhance nature to improve our physical environment and prevent biodiversity loss? During her PBL Academy Lecture, which took place on 15 November 2021, internationally renowned ecologist...
Report on the IPBES workshop on modelling Nature Futures scenarios, January 2021
In January 2021, the IPBES technical support unit (TSU) on Scenarios and Models, which is hosted by PBL, co-organized the workshop on modelling Nature Futures scenarios under the 2030 IPBES rolling...
Land restoration can make a significant contribution to sustainable development at the global level
A study by PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency shows that land restoration has global potential to contribute to multiple sustainability challenges, on food and agriculture, water...
Nature and biodiversity are being lost worldwide, and the capacity of ecosystems to provide services to people is deteriorating. Most of the targets for 2020 of the UN-Convention on Biological...
DNB and PBL: biodiversity loss is a source of financial risk
The financial sector is exposed to risks as a result of biodiversity loss. This emerged from a joint study by Dutch Central Bank (DNB) and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. The new...
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