The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set a vision for a more sustainable world, to be
realized by 2030. Progress to date is insufficient and implementation challenges are many …

Highlights•Climate and environmental change places disabled populations in more socially
and economically disadvantaged positions.•Data on climate and environmental change …

The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector encompasses managed
ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while delivering food, wood and …

Updates for many countries have made it possible to estimate hunger in the world with
greater accuracy this year. In particular, newly accessible data enabled the revision of the …

Recent assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and
the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services …

The protection and restoration of the biosphere is crucial for human resilience and well-
being, but the scarcity of data on the status and distribution of biodiversity puts these efforts …

Growing urbanisation is a threat to both mental health and biodiversity. Street trees are an
important biodiversity component of urban greenspace, but little is known about their effects …

The COVID-19 pandemic has stalled and rolled back progress on Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs). Ecosystem services (ESs), defined as the contributions of ecosystems to …

Biodiversity is essential for the maintenance of ecosystem health and delivery of the
Sustainable Development Goals. However, the drivers of biodiversity loss and the spatial …

The growing concerns over climate change and the existence of the resource curse
hypothesis in several resource-rich countries highlight the importance of green growth …