Earth's biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural
resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat …

Rapid technological development opens up new opportunities for assessing ecosystem
services (ES), which may help to overcome current knowledge gaps and limitations in data …

Sustainable development requires jointly achieving economic development to raise
standards of living and environmental sustainability to secure these gains for the long run …

Increasing human pressures are driving a global loss of biodiversity and of Nature's
Contributions to People (NCP)—the contributions of living nature to people's quality of life …

Global conservation policies have long used area-based targets to mobilize expansion of
protected areas. Despite the uneven distribution of biodiversity, different countries often …

Indigenous Peoples are custodians of many of the world's least-exploited natural areas.
These places of local and global socio-ecological importance face significant threats from …

Following intense negotiation over several years, the Convention on Biological Diversity's
Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework 1—adopted in December 2022—includes …

Plants sustain human life. Understanding geographic patterns of the diversity of species
used by people is thus essential for the sustainable management of plant resources. Here …

Global biodiversity is projected to further decline under a wide range of future socio-
economic development pathways, even in sustainability-oriented scenarios. This raises the …

Many land-based ecosystems are dependent on groundwater and could be threatened by
human groundwater abstraction. One key challenge for the description of associated …