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Land use must be managed and regulated to mitigate climate change, improve accessibility, enhance competitiveness, restore degraded biospheres, and promote social cohesion.  This guide shares stakeholder experiences and increases their involvement and sense of responsibility, to gain broad political support for land-us ...

Top-level science-policy documents increasingly call for urgent transformative change to address the rapidly escalating global biodiversity crisis.  The proposed actions in the new Post2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) could potentially bend the curve for biodiversity – but, only if promptly implemented and in a ...

Municipalities rely on the national governments for information, training, and financing to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  This survey cites the main challenges for Austrian municipalities in adopting and implementing the SDGs and shows the need for urgent action at local, regional and national le ...

A common carbon framework across sectors is becoming increasingly important as policymakers struggle to set more ambitious carbon reduction goals.  The Building System Carbon Framework bridges embodied and operational carbon and is neutral on materials and solutions.  It enables users to identify the best emissions-red ...

Environmental claims are part of the movement in seeking justice and taking legal action to promote social, economic and environmental sustainability. State and EU-level climate action and policies are being challenged for being insufficient to limit the global average temperature increase to below 2°C, as stipulated i ...