Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

According to the provisional data published by the European Environment Agency, the average CO2 emissions of new cars registered in Europe continued to decrease in 2023 and were 1.4% below 2022 levels, bringing them to 28% below 2019 levels. For vans too, the downward trend continued as average 2023 emissions fell to 11% below 2019 […]

Authors of a recently published research article discuss the ecological consequences of large dam removal through their study of instream habitat and invertebrate communities in a temperate, forested catchment in northern Spain. River restoration by dam removal During the last decades, increased awareness on the consequences of a degraded environment has led to new legislation, […]

ESG Analytics is an alternative data provider owned and operated by ExtractAlpha, a Hong Kong-based data company. ESG Analytics creates and tracks non-traditional sources to measure how companies, countries and investment funds are implementing ESG (environmental, social and governance) practices. Its dataset was created for investment uses out of its founders’ frustration with what they […]

Nick Barber and colleagues share a new invasive plant management technique to better control invasive species and improve biodiversity. Controlling invasive plants can be a never-ending battle for land managers, and this work is costly — not just in materials like expensive herbicide, but costly in time as well. This is especially the case when […]

Biological Flora author (and editor) Anthony Davy introduces a fascinating coastal species that offers many more ecological insights than one might imagine. This account of the Sea Campion (Silene uniflora) is the latest contribution to the long-running Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland series. The article itself has a long history: unusually, the authors include […]

In this new series, The Applied Ecologist is amplifying the staff and student voices from the University of Surrey’s Centre for Environment and Sustainability to showcase their diverse, interdisciplinary body of work and to help inspire the next generation. In this introductory post, we share below the Centre’s goals and ambitions.  About the Centre Founded […]

The European Commission has adopted a Communication on the total number of allowances in circulation (TNAC) on the European carbon market. In 2023 this number stood at 1 111 736 535. The TNAC indicator plays an important role in the functioning of the Market Stability Reserve (MSR) of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). It […]

Maja Bradarić summarises how, alongside colleagues, they used 5 years of tracking bird radar data, weather and phenological variables to develop seasonal forecasts of bird migration over the southern North Sea. These forecasts of nocturnal bird migration may be used to define curtailment thresholds for offshore wind energy. In May 2023, turbines in two offshore wind […]

Qian Gan (left) and Huixuan Liao (right) (photo credit: Zihao Chen) Huixuan Liao and Qian Gan, Sun Yat-sen University School of Life Sciences, discuss their article: ‘Spatiotemporal interaction of risk-spreading strategies for a seed-dimorphic plant’ Background Maternal modification of offspring stress tolerance is a ubiquitous phenomenon in plant and animal kingdoms that affects population persistence […]

The editor’s choice for our May issue is ‘Simulating past and future fire impacts on Mediterranean ecosystems‘, by Christoph Schwörer et al. Here, Associate Editor Anping Chen discusses the importance of this research: Characterized by a distinct climate with hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, the Mediterranean region is also often associated with frequent and […]