Biodiversity Climate Action
Biodiversity is a safety net for the Earth’s climate regulation. Biodiversity loss and climate change are strongly reinforcing, together they speed each other up. Restoring nature and biodiversity is one of the best things we can do for climate action.

“Decision-makers should fully consider nature-based solutions to achieve synergies in multiple policy areas – this requires a long-term vision and interdisciplinary approaches.”
Nature Outlook 2050 – Scenario Nature inclusive
The Circular Landscape
By integrating urban and natural areas in a landscape system approach, we analyse how nature-based solutions can restore biodiversity while increasing urban resilience. Landscape-based visions are powerful tools for building local and regional transition plans.
Synthesising Evidence for nature-based solutions
This project creates a global database of nature-based solution projects, their underlying drivers, their challenges, and successes. Case studies explore how to make better decisions in future projects and amplify the knowledge gained from the practitioner community.
Database of existing nature-based solutions
Nature-based solutions for resilient food systems
How do biodiversity and circular resource use help achieve food security? Mobilising knowledge for nature-based solutions in the context of food systems at risk of climate-related disruption.
Climate-smart forestry
How will European forests respond to climate change? How should European forestry adapt to provide maximum climate mitigation potential? This project explored how forestry and forest-based industries could respond to the demands of a carbon-neutral economy.
Governing nature-positive food systems
We need better tools to help us understand the interactions, trade-offs, dilemmas, and tensions in the transition to nature-positive food systems. This project will design new methodologies to support transparent and sustainable decisions.