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Accounting for Nature-Positive: Conceptual Foundations for Identifying Effective Organisation-Level Metrics and Targets
If humanity is to realise the vision of the Convention on Biological Diversity, of living in harmony with nature by 2050, then we must act to create a nature-positive economy. Inde...
Developing ecological solutions to plastic pollution
Hayley will investigate whether nature based solutions could be successfully employed to reduce the flux of microplastics into the marine environment. Key research questions includ...
Measuring Nature-related Positive Impacts in Land-use Finance - The Case of Banks
Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research.This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because i...
Synthesizing evidence in the economics of farm environmental biodiversity
Modern agriculture is vital to ensuring food security, but changes to the landscape due to intensive farming put ecosystems under stress. Natural landscapes provide many vital serv...
Understanding the economic recovery potential of investing in biodiversity in the Global South
The overall goal of this project is to enhance understanding of the short versus long-term economic recovery potential (ERP) of investments in biodiversity and have this knowledge...
Economic benefits of pollination to global food systems - Evidence and knowledge gaps
Pollination by bees and other animals is crucial to the production of 75% of the worlds crops, including many that are widely traded around the world, such as coffee, cocoa and rap...
Environmental Intelligence supporting more nature-positive investment via TNFD
Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research.This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because i...
Rewarding landowners and land managers for conserving biodiversity
Land use and land management are key determinants of biodiversity status around the world. Often, land managers are not financially incentivized for decisions which enhance biodive...
SME Financing for Biodiversity: Building Nature Measurement and Impacts into SME Financing ('SME FinBio')
Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research.This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because i...
Solutions to measuring and managing economic risks and Opportunities in Sustainable ocean development (SOS)
Marine and coastal ecosystems are major contributors to human well-being and economic development. Yet, our ability to account for the environmental, economic, and social value of...
Catalysing the emergence of a biodiversity stewardship credit market
Human activities are putting Life on Earth under tremendous pressure. Through direct exploitation of species, conversion of their habitats for new uses, climate change and other ca...
Core principles for integrated models for ecosystem management
Human society and our economy have been built to make use of the natural world. However, as the Dasgupta report has highlighted these activities have damaged our environment and wi...
When and Why does it Rain in the Desert: Utilising unique speleothem and dust records on the northern edge of the Sahara
Tropical semi-arid regions are key to understanding global climate telecommunications, and populations living in these areas are highly sensitive to climate change. An increase in...
Urgency Response to the 15 January 2022 Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha'apai Volcanic Eruption -understanding the Volcanic Mechanism and Impact of the tsunami
On January 15th, 2022, a month into the eruption of Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha'apai volcano, located in the Tonga Island arc in the southwest Pacific, there was a short lived (two...
MesoS2D:Mesospheric sub-seasonal to decadal predictability
In order to accurately predict impacts of space weather and climate variability on the whole atmosphere we need an accurate representation of the whole atmosphere. The mesosphere (...
Evolutionary dynamics of vegetative agriculture in the Ethiopian Highlands: integrating archaeobotanical and genomic science
Almost half of food plants are vegetatively propagated including four of the ten most economically important species worldwide. Yet we know very little about vegetative crop histor...
Quantifying Interocean Fluxes across the Cape Cauldron Hotspot of Eddy Kinetic Energy
The Agulhas current carries warm and salty subtropical Indian Ocean water south along the coast of east Africa.Past the Cape of Good Hope, the Agulhas Current overshoots the tip of...
Structure, Photosynthesis and Light In Canopy Environments (SPLICE)
The SPLICE project (Structure, Photosynthesis and Light In Canopy Environments) seeks to improve our understanding of global photosynthesis and hence our ability to model climate c...
Confronting the Changing Diversity Patterns of Coral Reefs
Coral reef ecosystems are in a state of change. Increasingly frequent and severe disturbances, and escalation of human interactions, are transforming many tropical coral reefs. At...
Diverse sources of volatile release across volcanic arcs: Insights from Kozelsky and Khangar volcanoes, Kamchatka
The Kamchatka peninsula is one of the most volcanically active regions on Earth and is among the best places in the world to study the fate of subducted old (cold) oceanic crust. U...