Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Runa Magnusson discusses her recent article: Spatiotemporal variability in precipitation-growth relations of Betula nana in the Siberian lowland tundra. Warming, greening, thawing – The Arctic is a place of rapid warming and environmental change, with temperatures increasing three to four times faster than the global average. Impacts on Arctic ecosystems and communities include, among many […]

This blog post is also available in Swedish here. Fabian Boetzl talks us through his and his colleagues’ new research on landscape-based strategies to reduce insect pest pressure and crop damage. The problem Systemic neonicotinoid insecticides are detrimental to a wide range of beneficial biodiversity, with wild bees as the most prominent example. Due to […]

The European Commission today adopted a new set of guidelines to assist Member States in updating and implementing comprehensive national adaptation strategies, plans and policies in line with the European Climate Law and the EU Strategy on adaptation to climate change. From extreme heatwaves and devastating droughts, to deadly forest fires and rising sea levels […]

Chinese translation follows below / 中文译文如下 The Dialogue focused on the avenues for EU-China cooperation in implementing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Both sides fully recognized that the HECD must continue to achieve practical results. Both sides believe that green should be the […]

Anna Gee, a PhD student at Imperial College London, talks us through ways in which we can help to restore forests through natural recruitment in this standalone piece. How do we decide what trees to plant for forest restoration? The approach of many restoration projects is to find what is known as a reference forest, […]

Hugo Sentenac discusses theirs and colleagues’ recent research article which uses data from a fungal pathogen and Darwin’s frogs to assess the magnitude of prevalence bias, as well as illustrate how it can impact disease risk assessment. Infectious diseases: Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Certain infectious diseases have wrought havoc in nature. One dramatic example is the amphibian […]

  Space-Based Solar Power, which can gather the unlimited sunlight available in space, can also work for the Moon. Space-Based Solar Power was first developed to serve the clean energy needs of planet Earth. As part of ESA’s Open Space Innovation Platform Campaign on ‘Clean Energy – New Ideas for Solar Power from Space’, a […]

The Federal Republic of Germany has notified the European Commission that it will re-appoint the European Energy Exchange AG (‘EEX’) as its opt-out platform. This reappointment is the result of a procurement procedure. Germany will entrust EEX with the auctioning of its volume of allowances pursuant to Article 30(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1031/2010 (‘the […]

André Luis Regolin talks us through the latest research from themselves and colleagues on conserving the rare Williams’ side-necked turtle. The study uses a new methodological approach to evaluate how current and future scenarios of hydroelectric generation affect the species’ distribution. The problem The Williams’ side-necked turtle (Phrynops williamsi) was only described to science in […]

A diver cements a nursery-grown coral using a pastry bag. (N. Thake, Nature Seychelles)   Photo license   In a move to improve the outcome of coral restoration undertaken by hotels in Seychelles, Nature Seychelles, a non-profit environmental organisation, has developed a new low-tech method to monitor the survival and growth of coral transplants.  Nature Seychelles […]