Publishings

Cities and urban communities represent the most powerful leverage points for the transition to circular economy (CE) models.  However, the complexity of urban territories with the interrelation of several systems and sub-systems makes this challenging. Cities struggle with their transition to a circular economy.  Witho ...

Four interactions – changes in climate affecting water runoff; changes in climate affecting vegetation cover; changes in vegetation cover affecting climate; and changes in vegetation cover affecting water runoff – are deemed of utmost importance for understanding the impact on the Earth system on policy-relevant timefr ...

The EU Nature Restoration Law cost-benefit ratio of 1:12 The EU Council formally adopted the Nature Restoration Law (NRL), a far-reaching law to restore ecosystems across the EU, on 17 June.  Up to 80% of habitat types in the EU are in poor condition, up to 70% of soils in the EU are unhealthy, and the overall environm ...

Financial services are critical for corporate activities to regenerate and promote biosphere resilience as a key strategy to confront the new risk landscape and are essential to the transformation needed for a sustainable future. Current financial risk frameworks focus mainly on financial materiality and risks to the f ...

Adaptation planning more effectively reduces climate risk when it identifies not only disparities in how people are affected by climate change but also the underlying causes of climate vulnerability.  Transformative adaptation involves consideration of the physical and social drivers of vulnerability and how they inter ...