Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Authors of a recently published research article explain how, to enhance fish diversity, it is important to provide three-dimensional habitat architecture that incorporates a wide range of microhabitat sizes and types.  Habitat complexity Habitat complexity is a key driver of marine fish diversity and essential for determining structure and function of fish communities. Many fishes […]

CSRHub has been generating consensus ESG ratings for 16 years.  We started with data on about 5,000 entities.  In 2024, we’re able to publish data on more than 56,000 entities (companies, not for profits, government bodies). Entities may start their reporting process by joining an organization, submitting data to a government database, or issuing a […]

The Commission has today published reports on the operation of several pieces of climate legislation: the European Climate Law; the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) Directive; the Effort Sharing Regulation; and the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Regulation. These reports are required under the legislation, to provide an overview of how the […]

New report showcases progress and priorities Ahead of the Third Forum of the Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change on 23 May 2024, a new report reveals the progress and priorities for the Mission in its action to tackle climate change. The Activity Report presents success stories, data, insights and innovative Mission Projects that aim […]

In this week’s blog post, Jostein Gohli and authors discuss their recent research which explores how climatic and management-related factors influence bark beetle population sizes in boreal forests. The European spruce bark beetle The European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) is a notorious tree-killer in spruce-dominated forests. The last 5-10 years it has caused enormous […]

Our use and management of land is crucial for addressing the global challenge of climate change, both because it functions as a carbon sink that we need to strengthen and as a source of emissions that must be reduced. The EU 27’s net land sink declined by 35% between 2010 and 2021. On 15 May, […]

Feature image: Invasive Red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) © Alex Caruana Author Alex Caruana shares learnings from their failed attempts to eradicate invasive crayfish from the Fiddien Valley in Malta. Invasive alien crayfish, like the Red Swamp Crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), are a major threat to freshwater ecosystems all over the world. They have a significant […]

Plant enemies like insect herbivores and fungal pathogens eat or degrade plant tissue. How does this affect performance? Photo: Josh Brian We are invasion biologists, studying how and why species become invasive. One of the biggest hypotheses in our field is the ‘enemy release hypothesis’, which says that species become invasive because they escape from […]