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November 21, 2023

Deforestation is one of the most pressing global challenges in relation to the climate and biodiversity crises. Recently, the European Union (EU) has taken a step towards addressing this challenge by adopting the new EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) to secure deforestation-free supply chains. In this blog post, the authors open a discussion of consequences and effectiveness of this new supply chain regulation. The post is based on a May 2023 webinar hosted by GLP's Telecoupling Research Towards Sustainable Transformation of Land Systems Working Group.   Read full post

Related Working Group(s): Telecoupling Research Towards Sustainable Transformation of Land Systems

News

December 5, 2023

PANGEA is a scoping study selected by NASA’s Terrestrial Ecology (TE) Program to work with tropical scientists and partners as well as the remote sensing community to outline a future NASA field campaign focused on the tropics. 

News

December 5, 2023

What drives woodland resurgence in mountain areas, and how can it best benefit local communities and ecosystems? Mountain Research and Development invites systematic assessments of innovative interventions or action research, empirical studies and meta-analyses on trends, drivers, and consequences, as well as review-based agendas for research, policies, or action. 

Jobs

December 5, 2023

The selected candidate will join the FLORA research team, collaborating with researchers in the team, department and beyond, to answer the project’s first main research question: “How far are current global food systems from environmental sustainability and health goals?”. Deadline: 1 February 2024

News

December 5, 2023

A new article in One Earth quantifies the importance of motivational factors for adoption of sustainable agriculture in Europe.

News

December 5, 2023

A new article in One Earth examines interventions that reduce deforestation and finds that effectiveness varies, and not all are equitable. 

News

December 5, 2023

A new study in Biological Conservation examines records of international conservation funding to South American major deforestation regions, which reveals a shift towards prioritizing remote areas with high carbon storage over those with high species richness, a strong interest in the Amazon, and varied interests of bilateral donors comparing to multilateral donors. 

News

December 5, 2023

Read a recap of the GLP Land Abandonment Working Group's PhD course held last summer at the University of Copenhagen.

Event

November 21, 2023

This year’s conference theme is “Revisiting What is Wild for Coexisting.” With this in mind, among other topics, Pathways Europe 2024 will be exploring topics related to native and non-native wildlife, debates around sharing different landscapes for the conservation of wildlife, and how to adapt to forthcoming changes for enhancing coexistence.

News

November 21, 2023

Learn more about the University of Arizona's “Adaptation and Response in Drylands (ARID)” scoping study, which was selected by NASA’s Terrestrial Ecology (TE) Program to work with dryland scientists and stakeholders as well as the remote sensing community to outline a future NASA field campaign focused on drylands.