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How blind are we to things too big to see directly? Take the environment — why should people care? Our muddled perceptions can make it grueling to find the right balance between individual well-being and conservation of nature. Falling biodiversity — the variety in the life around us, from microbes on up — has severe repercussions for human well...

This report presents findings from a project jointly implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). The project reviewed 50 Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from 36 Asia and the Pacific countries from 2016 to 2021. In this...

This is presented at the Fifth Science-policy Forum For Biodiversity on 12 December, COP15 in Montréal. It aimed to apply the Tourism and Sustainable Transformation Framework, while integraing the recent findings from the IPBES assessments, to the case of coastal communities in Mauritius where the majority of the local communities are artisanal...

Overview of the contributions made by the Satoyama Development Mechanism, a seed funding programme under the International Partnership for Satoyama Initiative, in the past and way forward to the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

An introduction for protected and conserved area practitioners

各国の生物多様性計画の指針となる、国連の「生物多様性戦略計画2011-2020」および「愛知目標」が、2020年に新たな枠組に更新される。この新たな枠組は「ポスト2020生物多様性枠組と呼ばれ、同年10月に中国の昆明で開催される生物多様性条約第15回締約国会議（CBD-COP15）で審議、採択される予定だった。新型コロナウイルス感染拡大を受けた度重なる遅延の後、COP15の第1部は2021年10月11日から15日まで昆明において、ほぼオンラインで開催された。第2部は最終的に2022年12月7日から19日の間に、CBD事務局の本拠地であるカナダ・モントリオールで開催されることが決まり、ここで新枠組が採択される予定である。本稿ではその要点を概説した。

In 2020, IGES and others reported that the United Nations’ Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its accompanying Aichi Biodiversity Targets would be replaced by a new framework to guide biodiversity planning at the national level. This framework, known as the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF), was due to be proposed for...

This is to frame the session, "Transformative Actions for a Nature-positive Society from SATOYAMA Initiative towards 2030. It emphasizes the need of transformative change and the potential contributions by the Satoyama Initiative towards a nature positive society to be realized by 2030.

More than 90 systematic reviews have been conducted on the topic of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation (NBS-CCA). These prior reviews, however, are scattered across more than 45 different peer-reviewed journals and gray literature sources, making it difficult to follow all of the knowledge generated and remaining research gaps. In...

A global agreement to end plastic pollution must be based on pertinent, multi-disciplinary knowledge. Consideration of the full life cycle impacts of plastics and substitutes is important to achieve sustainable solutions rather than shifting the burden. Hence, this process requires considerations of fossil-based and biobased feedstocks for plastic...