Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

On 4 July 2023, Executive Vice-President (EVP) of the European Commission Frans Timmermans and First Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China Ding Xuexiang held the fourth China-EU High Level Dialogue on Environment and Climate (HECD) in Beijing to deepen cooperation on the global green transition. Both sides agreed that green is the distinctive […]

Over the past two weeks, representatives from countries around the world descended on the former West German capital for their first full in-person meeting since COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh. Despite significant frustrations in Bonn, regarding Parties failure to agree on an agenda for much for the two-week session, some important headway was made. Parties and […]

Jamie McKaughan describes his team’s latest research testing the use of distance sampling with camera traps as a way to establish meaningful density estimates of mesocarnivores in South Africa. Frederick Forsyth’s novel, ‘The Day of the Jackal’, is a gripping political thriller that tells the story of a highly skilled assassin tasked with killing the […]

Over the last two days, around 600 registered participants from Europe and beyond took part in the annual Forum of the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change. Representatives of the EU institutions, charter signatories, Friends of the Mission, national and regional authorities, financial institutions, and researchers took part in the discussions. During the Forum […]

Raquel Carvalho and Ellen Andresen explain new research that evaluates the impact of land use, landscape structure, and their interactions, on dung beetles, a group of insects that provides many ecosystem services. Carvalho et al demonstrated that both factors act together to shape biodiversity patterns, and that the effect of landscape structure often depends on […]

Capturing Ecology has introduced a new category – Plants and Fungi! Capturing Ecology is an annual photography competition run by the British Ecological Society, offering you the opportunity to showcase your research and the wonderful species you study. There’s also some great prizes up for grabs! This year our very own Executive Editor, Richard Bardgett, […]

According to provisional data published by the European Environment Agency, the average CO2 emissions of new cars registered in Europe in 2022 reached new lows, down 27% below 2019 levels thanks to the stricter emission targets that have applied since 2020. Vans too have seen a similar downward trend in average CO2 emissions, with 2022 […]

This post is also available in Tumbuka here. Cassandra Vogel and Vera Mayer present their latest research into the effects of habitat loss on butterflies in Malawi, suggesting that encouraging smallholders to increase the diversity of flowering crops and implement sustainable soil practices is needed. Habitat loss and butterflies The African Miombo woodland ecoregion spanning […]

Natalie Oram and Johannes Ingrisch discuss their recent article: Drought intensity alters productivity, carbon allocation and plant nitrogen uptake in fast versus slow grassland communities. Find out more about how drought intensity affects plant productivity, and plant–soil carbon and nitrogen cycling.  We have become so accustomed to hearing the sentence ‘drought events are becoming more […]

The steel industry is one of Europe’s powerhouses, contributing some €110 billion a year to the European economy, employing 330,000 people and supporting a further 1.6 million jobs in related sectors. Until recently, it has been impossible to achieve the high temperatures required for steel production without burning large quantities of fossil fuels – consequently, […]