Co-produced transformative knowledge to accelerate change for biodiversity
Co-produced transformative knowledge to accelerate change for biodiversity
Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 185, April 2026
Jochen Dürr, Thomas Dietz, Jan Börner
Commodity imports by the European Union (EU) are an important driver of land use change in agricultural producer countries. The new EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) encompasses seven relevant commodities that can only enter the EU market if they are certified deforestation-free. The EUDR may lead to changes in land use governance and value chain governance of major trading partner countries, which can be described as telecoupling at the policy level. This study develops ‘telecoupling of governance systems’ conceptually and presents a generally applicable framework.
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Aquaculture, Volume 613, February 2026
David Baptista de Sousa, Ian Vázquez-Rowe, Ramzy Kahhat
The marine ingredients (MIs) industry is essential to the aquaculture sector, mainly providing fishmeal and fish oil to support animal feed and human nutrition. The exponential growth of aquaculture and the heavy reliance on finite marine resources pose significant sustainability challenges and highlight the need for more comprehensive and regionally adapted metrics beyond current Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) indicators and non-conventional LCA metrics.
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Elsevier Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 396, December 2025
Margaux Durand, Leon Bennun, Joshua Berger, Alison Eyres, Koen J.J. Kuipers, Louise Mair, Aafke M. Schipper, Vincent Martinet
Business and finance sector actors have the potential to contribute substantially to bending the curve of biodiversity loss, in the context of a global nature positive agenda. The scope of application of the mitigation hierarchy – avoiding and reducing negative impacts on nature, and compensating for the residual ones – is being extended, from localised impacts to potentially diffuse ones at the level of corporate value-chains, to achieve at least no net loss (NNL) of biodiversity.
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Environmental Research : Food Systems, Volume 2, July 2025
Yeqing Zhang, Kajwan Rasul, Francesca Verones and Edgar Hertwich
Environmentally extended multi-regional input–output (EE-MRIO) models are widely used to address environmental issues in food system studies, but their application in policymaking is challenging because there are differences between the databases. This study compares two prominent EE-MRIO databases, EXIOBASE v3.8.2 and FABIO v1.2, by analyzing the sources of variation in per capita land use footprints of beef consumption, based on average data across six countries from 2015 to 2018.
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Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, Volume 26, June 2025
Koen J.J. Kuipers, Adam Melki, Stephane Morel, Aafke M. Schipper
The potentially disappeared fraction of species (PDF) and the loss in mean species abundance (MSA) are two commonly used indicators to quantify losses in local biodiversity integrity associated with production and consumption of goods and services (biodiversity ‘footprints’). However, it is unclear to what extent these two indicators align.
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PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, December 2024
Kajwan Rasul, Martin Bruckner, Finn Mempel, Stefan Trsek, Edgar G Hertwich
Biomass was the principal energy source in preindustrial societies; their agriculture provided more energy than it required. Thus, the energy return on energy investment (EROEI) needed to be >1. Recent studies have indicated that this may not be the case for modern industrialized agrifood systems (AFSs). Although the green revolution radically improved agricultural yields, it came at the expense of increased energy inputs, mainly in the form of fossil fuels.
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Nature Ecology & Evolution, Volume 9, July 2024
Gustavo M. Oliveira, Rafaella F. Ziegert, Andrea Pacheco, Laila Berning, Metodi Sotirov, Jochen Dürr, Daniel Braun, Felipe S. M. Nunes, Britaldo S. Soares-Filho & Jan Börner
The European Union’s Regulation on Deforestation-free products (Regulation (EU) 2023/1115) (EUDR) aims to reduce the impact of the EU on the world’s forests by imposing mandatory due diligence requirements on forest-risk commodities, such as beef, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soy and wood (as well as a number of derived products), starting from 31 December 2024.
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Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Volume 198, November 2023
Cristina-Maria Iordan, Koen J.J. Kuipers, Bo Huang, Xiangping Hu, Francesca Verones, Francesco Cherubini
In life-cycle impact assessment, currently available characterisation factors (CF) for climate change impacts on biodiversity are highly simplified and do not consider spatial and taxonomic differentiation of species or local climate variability. We develop the first spatially and taxonomically specific CFs for the impacts of 20 GHGs on biodiversity considering 26,648 species across terrestrial and marine ecosystems.
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