Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Written by Rylee McMillan and Adrienne Keller At The Nature Conservancy’s Newell and Ann Meyer Preserve in Wisconsin, USA, managers face an increasingly difficult challenge: understanding the trade-offs and benefits of managing for carbon outcomes among other management objectives.  This challenge is not unique. Ecosystems globally are witnessing clear and intensifying effects of climate change, […]

Donghao Wu, from the Zhejiang University in China, discusses their article: The intrinsic coordination of tree growth strategy and wood decomposability What happens after a tree dies? As plant ecologists, we often focus on how trees grow: how fast they capture carbon, how tall they become, and how long they live. But forests are not […]

Katerina Chernyuk highlights the need to understand the various factors impacting temperate rainforests and shares her team’s research investigating the potential climate envelopes in Ireland and Britain. Recently, temperate rainforests have captured public awareness across Ireland and Britain, with everything from award-winning books, media articles and restoration projects, leading to attention from both NGOs and […]

Rose Brinkoff and Olivia Vought, University of Michigan, discuss their article: The impact of warming on peak-season ecosystem carbon uptake is influenced by dominant species in warmer sites Ecosystems both absorb and release carbon. Carbon dioxide gas (CO2) in the atmosphere is taken up by plants through the process of photosynthesis and released by plants […]

Markus Wagner, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Sandra Varga, University of Lincoln, and Richard Jefferson, former Natural England grassland specialist, discuss their article: Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Geranium sylvaticum Wood crane’s-bill as a model species for pollination ecology and plant breeding systems The structural adaptations of wood crane’s-bill (Geranium sylvaticum) to facilitate […]

The Commission has launched two open public consultations and calls for evidence for the preparation of the EU climate policy framework for the period after 2030, focusing on the role of national climate targets and flexibilities and on the possible use of international credits. These consultations will play a critical role in shaping the preparation […]

Unlocking €3 billion for investment opportunities in the decarbonisation of buildings and road transport Today, the European Investment Bank has agreed on a ETS2 Frontloading Facility, jointly developed with the Commission, making €3 billion available to accelerate investments in the decarbonisation of sectors covered by the new EU’s emissions trading system (ETS2), notably buildings and […]

Marco Barandun, Agroscope and University of Zurich, discusses his article: Scaling species richness: When vegetation surveys don’t match in plot area What can you do when your dataset contains vegetation surveys with plots the size of a shoebox alongside plots the size of a living room? This was exactly the situation I found myself in […]