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Call for Expressions of Interest: Mainstreaming biodiversity in economic sectors

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Within the frame of the ECOPRONAT research program (Encouraging the Development of a Pro-Nature Economy), AFD is launching a call for expressions of interest for research on the “Mainstreaming biodiversity in economic sectors”. This Call for Expressions of Interest is the first phase of the selection process. The aim: Funding one or two research projects  which will start in the fourth quarter of 2021. The call is open until May 28, 2021. 

More information about the research programme can be found here.

SDGs: what’s wrong and what do we need to change

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ESP member Dr. Bulat K.Yessekin, a senior expert on water, environment and climate change and also The National Coordinator on sustainable development of Kazakhstan for UN from 1998 to 2012 has recently written the following report titled “SDGs: What’s wrong and what do we need to change”. [Read more…] about SDGs: what’s wrong and what do we need to change

Updates from ESP Brazil

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The ESP Brazil network is pleased to announce the following updates:

  1. Resilience of Community Food Systems (CFS): Co-Design as a Long-Term Viable Pathway to Face Crises in Neglected Territories?
    A publication on how COVID-19 affected the food systems and what can be done to overcome the challenges. This publication is a result of a collaborative study between Brazil and Germany. You can access it from here.
  2. Brazils Highway BR-319: The road to the collapse of the Amazon and the violation of indigenous rights
    A scientific publication that impacted a public call in the Amazon region. You can access it from here.
  3. The ESP Brazilian network is on Instagram! You can follow them now @brasil.esp.

Ecosystem Services Valuation Database Latest Version

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We are pleased to share with you the latest version of the Ecosystem Service Valuation Database.

For this update, we teamed-up with Agrifood Economics Division (ESA) of the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO). ESVD data are linked to the Biodiversity Integrated Assessment and Computation Tool (B-INTACT) for evaluating the ‘social cost of biodiversity’ indicator (one out of a set of indicators employed in the tool). Our focus was on increasing the coverage of the database for natural terrestrial biomes in order to improve the current indicator robustness. We also expanded data towards Mangroves (Coastal systems biome) as part of a meta-analytic application of ESVD, commissioned by the World Bank. [Read more…] about Ecosystem Services Valuation Database Latest Version