A request can be categorized in one or more of the four groups according to the type of procedure to follow for answering it. Learn more about the different types of categories below:
Requests
Knowledge Synthesis requests
BioAgora – Cumulative impacts of offshore wind farms on marine ecosystems
End Date: Ongoing
Type of request: Knowledge Synthesis
Requester: European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment (EC – DG ENV)
Funder: EU Horizon Europe project “Connecting biodiversity knowledge and decision-making” – BioAgora
Subject: What are the cumulative impacts of offshore wind farms and their consequences for the achievement of good environmental status of marine ecosystems?
EmpowerUs – Building resilient coastal communities through nature-based solutions (NBS) and other empowerment tools .
End Date: Ongoing – Open Call for Review of the Draft Report –
Type of request: Knowledge Synthesis
Requester: EU Horizon europe project “Socio-economic EMPOWERment of Coastal communities as USers of the sea to ensure sustainable coastal development” (EmpowerUs)
Subject: How community empowerment tools and nature-based solutions (NBS) can contribute to addressing coastal challenges and building resilient communities?
Biodiversity and Pandemics
End Date: 11/2023 – New evidence report on “Biodiversity and pandemics: Interdisciplinary research and action priorities.” released –
Type of request: Knowledge Synthesis
Requesters: European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (EC-DG RTD),European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environnent (EC – DG ENV), European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (EC-DG AGRI), European Commission’s Directorate-General DG Health Emergency preparedness and Response Authority (EC – DG HERA), PREZODE, One Health High-Level Expert Panel, Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NRI), Project HERA (Health Environment Research Agenda for Europe)
Subject: Building on existing relevant work on research agendas and knowledge gap analysis, identifying interdisciplinary research and action priorities, that contribute to a strategic research agenda on biodiversity and pandemics addressing the critical interlinkages between relevant sectors needed to make future actions more effective.
Incorporating ecosystem services in mitigation hierarchy policy
End Date: 06/2023 – New Evidence Report –
Type of request: Knowledge Synthesis
Requester: Office Français de la Biodiversité (OFB) – French Biodiversity Agency
Subject: How can we improve adherence to the Mitigation hierarchy using ecosystem services with particular focus on the avoid stage?
Macroalgae cultivation and ecosystem services
End Date: 05/2022
Type of request: Knowledge Synthesis
Requester: European Commission’s Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs & Fisheries (DG MARE), Unit for Maritime Innovation, Marine Knowledge and Investment
Subject: What is the state of knowledge regarding the potential of macroalgae culture in providing climate-related and other ecosystem services (i.e. coastal protection; nutrient recycling; lower impact food; lower impact material; etc.)? Are there specific knowledge gaps to be addressed before harvesting this potential?
Impacts of green and blue space on mental health
End Date: 03/2021
Type of request: Knowledge Synthesis
Requester: French Ministery of Ecological Transition (MTES), 3rd National Action Plan on Health and Environment (PNSE3), Expert Working Group Biodiversity & Health and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Subject: Which types and components of urban and peri-urban blue/green spaces have a significant impact on human mental health and mental well-being?
Impact evaluation framework for Nature Based Solutions
End Date: 2017
Type of request: Knowledge Synthesis
Requester: European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (DG R&I)
Subject: An impact evaluation framework to support planning and evaluation of nature-based solutions projects.
Environmental regulation, business and biodiversity
End Date: 06/2018
Type of request: Knowledge Synthesis
Requester: Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
Subject: How can environmental regulators support businesses to improve the outcomes of their operations for biodiversity, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises in the food and beverage sector in Europe?
Integrating biodiversity research and knowledge at European and global scales
End Date: 01/2019
Type of request: Knowledge Synthesis
Requester: European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (DG R&I)
Subject: What needs to be done to better integrate research and knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services from the global to the European level, and vice versa?
Biodiversity and the Common Agricultural Policy
End Date: 06/2019
Type of request: Knowledge Synthesis and Horizon scanning
Requester: IUCN and the Swedish Board of Agriculture
Subject: What measures are most promising to deliver on supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services in the next round of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)?
Societal Engagement requests
Post-2020 biodiversity and transformative change
End Date: 10/2020
Type of request: Societal Engagement and Support Initiatives
Requester: Alternet and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (DG R&I)
Subject: To significantly contribute to the development of the EU post-2020 Biodiversity Strategy and the success of its implementation by, inter alia, ensuring the policy relevance of the ALTER-Net conference sessions and maximise uptake of its outputs / What is Transformative Change, how can biodiversity policy trigger Transformative Change and how this can be translated into actions, goals, targets and pathways for the Global Biodiversity Strategy to 2030?”
Support Initiatives requests
Post-2020 biodiversity and transformative change
End Date: 10/2020
Type of request: Societal Engagement and Support Initiatives
Requester: Alternet and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (DG R&I)
Subject: To significantly contribute to the development of the EU post-2020 Biodiversity Strategy and the success of its implementation by, inter alia, ensuring the policy relevance of the ALTER-Net conference sessions and maximise uptake of its outputs / What is Transformative Change, how can biodiversity policy trigger Transformative Change and how this can be translated into actions, goals, targets and pathways for the Global Biodiversity Strategy to 2030?”
Supporting European contributions to IPBES
End Date: 04/2019
Type of request: Support Initiatives
Requester: European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment (DG Environment)
Subject: How could the comments from the scientific community support the comments/questions of the EU negotiators of the IPBES SPM on Global assessment?
