BioMonWeek 2026 brought together Europe's biodiversity monitoring community for a week of exchanges on how to better observe, measure, and ultimately protect the natural world. The conference, organis...

Portugal's geographic position and its history as a sea crossing nation are deeply ingrained in the country's history and in its policy preferences. How is this reflected in Portugal's behaviour in ne...

When diplomats finalised the UN’s landmark BBNJ treaty on high-sea biodiversity, it was widely hail

2026 marks the anniversaries of several environmental disasters that severely harmed both nature and human health. As these disasters were caused by human activity, they raise questions about who is r...

In March 2026, as governments wrapped up the first part of the International Seabed Authority’s 31st session in Kingston, Jamaica,

The construction and use of datasets have become an important practice in Earth system governance research. By systematically cataloguing various outc…

Francesca Ferlaino und Sepp Hochreiter unter den neugewählten Mitgliedern. Margit Fischer wird Ehrenmitglied. Faßmann: “Akademie wird jünger, vielfältiger und weiblicher”.

A practice-focused reflection on the IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment and what it means for organisational strategy, governance and systemic risk.

Warum wir Natur nicht länger nur als Ressource denken dürfen und was das neue UN-Hochseeschutzabkommen für die Zukunft bedeutet, darüber spricht Politikwissenschaftlerin Alice Vadrot im Vorfeld einer ...

University assistant predoctoral