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What if we paid countries to protect biodiversity?
3 October 2019
Researchers from Sweden, Germany, Brazil and the USA have developed a financial mechanism to support the protection of the world’s natural heritage. In a recent study, they developed three different design options for an intergovernmental biodiversity financing mechanism. Asking, what would happen if money was given to countries for providing protected areas, they simulated where the money would flow, what type of incentives this would create - and how these incentives would align with international conservation goals. Researchers reject the EU reform plans for CAP – “not viable for the future”
15 August 2019
When it comes to meeting sustainability goals, the current reform proposal of the EU Commission on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) falls well short at the mark, accordning to a group of international researchers writing in the journal Science. The proposed amendments to the CAP will not improve the environmental protection – rather the opposite, says Dagmar Clough, ecologist at Lund University and one of the researchers behind the analysis.
Unique climate modeling with vegetation in focus
2 July 2019
Researchers at Lund University have contributed to creating a new, updated version of a global climate model that will increase understanding of global warming. Through the new model, one can now look at how land use and changes to vegetation can influence, and be influenced by, climate change. How is the life of the urban birds?
26 June 2019
Summer days bring relaxing breaks in parks for many city dwellers. But how often do you look up from your picnic blanket and reflect on the surrounding wildlife and on how it would affect you if the birds went silent for good? Johan K. Jensen’s doctoral studies compares the wellbeing of some of our most common small birds living in the city compared to the countryside. Gardening tips: Five easy ways to contribute to biodiversity
29 May 2019
The greatest threat to biodiversity today is different species losing their habitats. To reverse this trend will require action on many societal levels, and there are simple things you can do in your own garden to help, according to Lund University researchers Anna Persson and Caroline Isaksson. New knowledge makers focus on environmental and climate effects
8 May 2019
How do micro-plastics affect our soil? What's the impact of urbanization on biodiversity? And how can drones be used for measuring carbon fluxes from Swedish peatlands? These were a few of the questions raised at the initial PhD student spring meeting at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC). CEC during the Sustainability week
24 April 2019
An exhibition, a seminar on urban nature and a climate crash course - that's how CEC contributed to the Sustainability week 2019. Lack of settlements threatens biodiversity
25 March 2019
The national Swedish radio visited Lund to talk about pollinating insects and study their wintering sites. Land use for a sustainable future
20 March 2019
CEC has been granted funding for a so-called collaborative initiative to find solutions for sustainable land use in Sweden, with emphasis in Skåne. CEC Annual report 2018
15 February 2019
CEC is in an expansive phase and the number of doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows and administrative staff increased during 2018. 